Showing posts with label Jewish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish. Show all posts

Monday, April 4, 2022

Great people: Baruch Spinoza.

 Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Jewish origin. He was born on November 24, 1632, in Amsterdam.



Spinoza’s parents were Miguel Spinoza and Ana Débora.

His interests were metaphysics, Hebrew Bible, and ethics.



Baruch Spinoza had an education. He studied in Talmud Torah of Amsterdam and University of Leiden.



Also, Spinoza had his own ideas, such as: Spinozism, Spinoza’s theory of the emotions, Spinozistic ethics, and etc.

He died on February 21, 1677, in The Hague.

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Great people: Anne Frank.

Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt. She had father Otto, mother Edith, and older sister Margot.

During World War II she wrote The Diary of a Young Girl. 

This book is very important for world history.