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Andrés ha escrito libros de ficción y no ficción en inglés y español.

El Impío

Se dice que sin él la historia del mundo hubiese sido distinta. Juan de Prado, médico judeoespañol del siglo XVII, es considerado el padre olvidado de la modernidad. En una época en que la Inquisición perseguía fervientemente no solo otras doctrinas religiosas, sino también todas aquellas corrientes de pensamiento que no fueran dogmáticas, el universo filosófico de Juan de Prado se consideraba el de un hereje. Tras muchas desventuras en su natal España y otros países europeos, se asentó en Ámsterdam, donde conoció al gran Baruch Spinoza. Su influencia en el filósofo fue tal que se le atribuye el origen del racionalismo y la heterodoxia religiosa spinozista. Basada en una profunda y rigurosa investigación, El impío es una novela cargada de aventuras, pero también de las grandes preguntas que atañen al ser humano: ¿qué es la fe? ¿Puede el hombre regirse tan solo mediante la razón? ¿Cómo encontrar un sentido de la existencia?

Tradición y transición

Since the advent of modernity, the human condition has been changing and evolving, a process that has accelerated radically in the 21st century. These transformations are revolutionizing Jewish communities throughout the world and posing momentous questions for individual Jews and Jewish leaders alike. While Judaism has undergone many changes in its four thousand years of history, there’s something particularly perplexing about our times, as the rise of the hyper-empowered individual challenges the foundations of every cultural and religious community. Drawing on extensive research and decades of professional practice in the Jewish Community, Spokoiny seeks to answer a key question: How can Jewish communities – and Judaism – thrive in our tumultuous age? While this book focuses on Jewish communities, it offers valuable insights for all those who study identity, belonging, and community in the 21st century.

Andres's Substack

Notes from a Liminal Time

This Substack is driven by a simple frustration: too many conversations today are loud, moralized, and shallow at the same time. The spaces in which ideas can be discussed with intellectual depth are increasingly rare and often inaccessible.

Here, I write about contemporary Jewish and global issues, Jewish identity, antisemitism, philanthropy, community, and, at times, philosophy and science. The scope is intentionally eclectic.

These essays are addressed to readers interested in a deeper, more nuanced engagement with our moment, one that resists moral grandstanding and reflexive outrage, favors historical perspective and conceptual rigor, and refuses to treat complexity as a moral failure.

I engage in muscular polemics and intellectual guerrilla tactics when necessary. But the premise of this page is that, at times, it is also essential to slow down and think seriously. The underlying belief is simple but unfashionable: even in an age of clickbait and epistemic chaos, the effort is still worth it.

Who is this for: While some of the posts may sound like “inside baseball” for Jewish leaders and activists, this is for anyone—Jewish or not—interested in the forces reshaping communities, societies, and the world writ large. In sum, anybody who’s intellectually curious and unafraid of complexity.

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