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ism and trenchant critique of what he considered the delusions of German Jews

who denationalized their Judaism and identified with the German people were

wholly out of step with mainstream German-Jewish sensibilities and more than

Auerbach could countenance. In the late 1830 s and 1840 s both friends set out

with Spinoza to try to reimagine the polity and the nature of community, but the

paths down which they followed Spinoza led in radically different directions.