 Her first strictly philosophical essay, as Susman understood it, was dedicated to Spinoza, who, in her view, was modern Judaism’s “only unique personality of truly creative magnitude” as she had noted in “Judaism and Culture” in 1907 (JuK 2). “Spinoza und das jüdische Weltgefühl” (“Spinoza and the Jewish Disposition vis-à-vis the World”, 1913) appeared in the anthology Vom Judentum, edited by the Jewish Student Association Bar Kochba in Prague. Susman was the only contributing woman author.