Benediktus de Spinosa.

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DUTCH Anonymous: Benediktus de Spinosa (1632-1677); also known as Baruch Spinoza; was a rationalist philosopher. He was the first secular Jew to be excommunicated from the Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam.

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