Jewish Encounters: Betraying Spinoza, Maimonides, and the Life of David

by Sherwin B. Nuland, Robert Pinsky

A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT For the first time in a boxed set, a perfect addition to your family’s library, are 3 of the remarkable titles in the Jewish Encounters Betraying Spinoza , Maimonides , and The Life of David . Discover 3,000 years of Jewish life, history and culture with the series that The Washington Post calls “lively and distinguished”.

The critically acclaimed Jewish Encounters series brings together writers of the first rank with people, ideas and events from the Jewish past.

Hardcover

Published October 30, 2007

About the author

Sherwin Nuland was an American surgeon and author who taught bioethics and medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. He was the author of The New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winning How We Die, and has also written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Republic, Time, and the New York Review of Books.

His NYTimes obit: http://nyti.ms/1kxNtQC