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Menasseh was born on Madeira Island in 1604, with the name Manoel Dias Soeiro, a year after his parents had left mainland Portugal because of the Inquisition.
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* Menasseh or Manasseh was the name of two Khazar rulers of the Bulanid dynasty:
But the public imagination had been gripped by blood libel, since at least the 12th century: " So pervasive was the belief that Jews circumcised their victims ... that Menasseh ben Israil, the Dutch Rabbi who sought from Cromwell the readmission of the Jews in 1656, had to dwell at considerable length in his Vindiciae Judaeorum at refuting the claim.
Manoel Dias Soeiro ( 1604 – November 20, 1657 ), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh ben Israel ( מנשה בן ישראל ), also, Menasheh ben Yossef ben Yisrael, also known with the Hebrew acronym, MB " Y, was a Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, scholar, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebrew printing press ( named Emeth Meerets Titsma ` h ) in Amsterdam in 1626.
Soon after Menasseh left London Cromwell granted him a pension, but he died before he could enjoy it, at Middelburg in the Netherlands in the winter of 1657 ( 14 Kislev 5418 ), as he was conveying the body of his son Samuel home for burial.
Menasseh ben Israel was the author of many works.
A pass was granted to Menasseh to enter England, but he was unable to use it because of the war between England and Holland, which lasted from 1652 to 1654.
Using this permission, Antonio Fernandez Carvajal and Simon de Caceres purchased a piece of land for a Jewish cemetery in 1657, and Solomon Dormido, a nephew of Menasseh Ben Israel, was admitted to the Royal Exchange as a duly licensed broker of the City of London, without taking the usual oath involving a statement of faith in Christianity.
When Menasseh Ben Israel came to England in 1655 to petition Parliament for the return of the Jews to England, Carvajal, though his own position was secured, associated himself with the petition ; and he was one of the three persons in whose names the first Jewish burial-ground was acquired after the Robles case had forced the Jews in England to acknowledge their creed.
He was succeeded by Hezekiah, his son ; next to him was Menasseh, his son ; next to him was Hanukkah, the brother of Obadiah ; next Isaac, his son ; afterwards, his son Zebulun ; then his son Moses some editions, Menasseh II ; then his son Nisi ; then his son Aaron I ; then his son Menahem ; then his son Benjamin ; then his son Aaron ; and I, Joseph, the son of Aaron the King, am King, the son of a King, and the descendant of kings.
In the time of Oliver Cromwell, Menasseh ben Israel led a delegation seeking permission for Dutch Sephardim to settle in England: Cromwell was known to look favourably on the request, but no official act of permission has been found.
As a basic academic language, Portuguese was used for such works as the halakhic manual Thesouro dos Dinim by Menasseh Ben Israel and controversial works by Uriel da Costa.
Accordingly a committee was appointed, consisting of António Gomes Serra, Menasseh Mendes, Alfonso Rodrigues, Manuel Nunez Miranda, Andrea Lopez, and Pontaleão Rodriguez.
During this time both Christina and La Peyrère met with Menasseh Ben Israel, who was later invited by Oliver Cromwell's government to England to negotiate the readmission of Jews to that country.
Menasseh became a convert to La Peyrère's belief that the coming of the Jewish Messiah was imminent.
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Menasseh also had a daughter, Gracia, born 1628, who married Samuel Abarbanel Barboza in 1646, and died in 1690.
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* Jewish Encyclopedia entry on Menasseh Ben Israel
They included some beautiful and rare prints, among them The flight into Egypt, etched on a plate by Hercules Segers, and David and Goliath, designed as an illustration for Menasseh ben Israel ’ s book Piedra Gloriosa ( Amsterdam 1655 ).
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** Menasseh Ben Israel ( 1604 – 1657 )
** Menasseh Ben Israel ( 1604 – 1657 )
* Menasseh Ben Israel ( 1604 – 1657 )
** Menasseh Ben Israel ( 1604 – 1657 )
** Menasseh Ben Israel ( 1604 – 1657 )
** Menasseh Ben Israel ( 1604 – 1657 )
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Menasseh Ben Israel negotiated with Cromwell the opening of England, and their colonies, to the Jews.
In the 1650s, Menasseh Ben Israel, a rabbi and leader of the Dutch Jewish community, approached Oliver Cromwell with the proposition that Jews should at long-last be readmitted to England.
The mission of Oliver St John to Amsterdam, though failing to establish a coalition between English and Dutch commercial interests as an alternative to the Navigation Act, had negotiated with Menasseh Ben Israel and the Amsterdam community.
This, along with the traditional spellings Sabá ( Shabbat ), Menasseh ( Menashe ), Ros ( as ) anáh ( Rosh Hashana ), Sedacáh ( tzedaka ), massoth ( matzot ), is evidence of a traditional pronunciation which did not distinguish between the various sibilants — a trait which is shared with some coastal dialects of Moroccan Hebrew.
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Menasseh had three children by her.
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** Menasseh Ben Israel, Jewish Rabbi ( d. 1657 )
Mendelssohn himself published a German translation of the Vindiciae Judaeorum by Menasseh Ben Israel.
On the other hand, Samaritans ( tribes of Menasseh, Ephraim and partially Benjamin and Levi ) became named for Samaria.
Samuel Ben Israel, son of Menasseh Ben Israel, is buried in Middelburg at the Sephardic burial site located at the ' Jodengang ' outside the citywall.
Menasseh rose to eminence not only as a rabbi and an author, but also as a printer.
In 1644, Menasseh met Antonio de Montesinos, who convinced him that the South America Andes ' Indians were the descendants of the lost ten tribes of Israel.
In 1655, Menasseh arrived in London.
Moses Jacob Ezekiel, the American sculptor, in his autobiography, claimed to be a descendant of Menasseh Ben Israel.
Many were moved in the same direction by mystical Messianic reasons ; and their views attracted the enthusiasm of Menasseh Ben Israel, who in 1650 published his Hope of Israel, in which he advocated the return as a preliminary to the appearance of the Messiah.
As soon as the war ceased, Menasseh Ben Israel sent his brother-in-law, David Abravanel Dormido, to London to present to the council a petition for the readmission of Jews.
Cromwell therefore induced Menasseh himself to come over to London, which he did at the end of September 1655, and there he printed his " humble address " to Cromwell.
Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel met Oliver Cromwell in 1655 in order to discuss the admission of Jews into England.
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