Daniel Schwartz

Daniel Schwartz is an associate professor of history and the director of the Judaic Studies Program at George Washington University. He is the author of The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image (2012), which was co-winner of the Salo W. Baron Prize for best first book in Jewish studies and a National Jewish Book Award finalist, and most recently of Spinoza’s Challenge to Jewish Thought: Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy (2019) and Ghetto: The History of a Word (2019).