Manasse Ben Israel (1604 – November 20th 1657), or Menashe Ben Yossef Ben Yisrael , sometimes abbrévié MB" Y , was a Rabbin, kabbalist, writer, scholar, diplomat, impimor and publior, founder of the first Hebraic house of press, called Emeth Meerets Titsma `H , with Amsterdam in 1626.

It is born under the name of Manoel Dias Soeiro with Madeira in 1604, one year after his/her parents, Conversos since three generations, were constrained to leave Portugal. Briefly forwarding by La Rochelle before arriving at Amsterdam where his/her parents " fall the masque" , Manuel Dias Soeiro is high in the Judaism, and becomes since 1610 raises Wise Isaac Uziel in very fresh Yeshiva of Amsterdam. Very versed in secular sciences as in the Jewish tradition, being caught passion for printing works, he writes many works answering the critics coming from the interior like outside of the Judaism, and defends the articles maïmonidiens of the faith, such as the resurrection of dead or the nature and the divine origin of the heart in his Nishmat Haïm.

Touched by the ideas of Isaac Peyrère, a Christian cabalist Converso, it is convinced of the imminent arrival of the Messie, taking in particular very with serious the davidic ascent of the Abravanel, of which he is relative.

Cepnedant, the Messiah will come only when the Jews populate the worldwide of the world, and it is that England their is closed since expulsion under the reign of Edouard Ier of England, four centuries earlier.

He thus goes to England, in order to convince Cromwell, writing for the occasion an Apology for the Jews, where he illustrates the many cases where, of Antipater (prince iduméen converted at the time of the Stiffs, and having operation to bring Rome in Judaea) with Juan Hanassi Mendès (old a Converso become duke of Naxos), the Jews were useful for the princes. Moreover, the Jews being without country, they contribute to enrich their land of welcome.

Although Cromwell was favorably impressed by the more or less discrete Conversos installed in England, Manasse Ben Israel returns bredouille of his mission and dies ruined. However, its intervention causes in the Netherlands a fast policy of integration of the Jews, and Cromwell accepted de facto the crypto-Jews on his territory. 150 years later, the dream of Manassé Ben Israel was carried out.

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Rabbi Menasseh was born in Madeira in 1604, with the name Manoel Dias Soeiro, has year after his parents had left Portugal because off the Inquisition. The family moved to The Netherlands in 1610. The Netherlands was in the middle off has process off religious revolt throughout the Eighty Years' War (1568 – 1648). The family' S arrival in 1610 was during the truce mediated by France and England At The La Hague.

Pink Menasseh to eminence not only ace has rabbi and year author, goal also ace has printer. He established the first Hebrew near in Holland. One off his earliest works, El Conciliador , won immediate reputation; it was year attempt apparent At reconciliation between discrepancies in various shares off the Old Will. Among his correspondents were Gerhard Johann Vossius, Hugo Grotius, and Pierre Daniel Huet. In 1638, He decided to settle in Brazil, ace He still found it difficult to provide for his wife and family in Amsterdam, goal this step was rendered unnecessary by his appointment to direct has college founded by the Pereiras.

In 1644, Menasseh puts off Antonio de Montesinos, who convinced him that the North American Indians were the downward the lost ten tribes off Israel. This supposed discovery gave has new pulse to Menasseh' S Messianic hopes. Goal He was convinced that the old Messianic needed ace its some precursor the settlement off Jews in all shares off the known world. Filled with this idea, He turned his attention to England, whence the Jews had been expelled since 1290. He found much Christian support in England. During the the Commonwealth the question off the readmission off the desired Jews was often mooted under the growing for religious liberty. Besides this, Messianic and other mystic hopes were current in England. In 1650, there appeared year English version off the Hope off Israel , has public leaflet which deeply impressed opinion. Oliver Cromwell had been moved to sympathy with the Jewish causes partly by his tolerant leanings, goal chiefly because He foresaw the importance for English trades the presence off off the Jewish merchant princes, nap off whom had already found to their way to London. At this juncture, Jews received full rights in the colony off Surinam, which had been English since 1650.

In 1655, Menasseh arrived in London. During his absence, the Amsterdam rabbis excommunicated his student, Spinoza. One off his first acts one reaching London was the resulting off his Humble Addresses to the Lord Protector , goal its effect was weakened by the resulting off William Prynne “S whitebait, goal to unfair Shorts Demurrer . Cromwell summoned the Whitehall Conference in December off the same year. Summon the most off notable statesmen, lawyers, and theologians off the day were summoned to this conference. The chief practical result was the declaration off judges Glynne and Steele that " there was No law which forbade the Jews” return to England." Though nothing was gives to regularize the position off the Jews, the door was opened to their gradual return. John Evelyn was whitebait to enter in his diary under the date Dec. 14,1655, " Now were the Jews admitted." Goal the attack one the Jews by Prynne and others could not go unanswered. Menasseh replied in the finest off his works, Vindiciae judaeorum (1656).

Soon after Menasseh left London Cromwell granted him has pension, goal He died before He could enjoy it. Death overtook him At Middleburg in the Netherlands in the winter off 1657 (14 Kislev 5418), ace He was conveying the body off his its Samuel home for burial. His tomb is in the Beit Hayim cemetery in Ouderkerk a/d Amstel.

Writings

Menasseh Ben Israel was the author off many works. His Of termino vitae was translated into English by Pococke, and his Conciliator by G.H. Lindo. Among his other works were has ritual compendium Tesoro back dinim , and Nishmat Hayim , off has treatise in Hebrew one the Jewish concept Gilgul, published by his its Samuel 6 years before they both died. Summon are off the opinion that He studied kabbalah with Abraham Cohen de Herrera, has disciple off Israel Saruk. This would explain his amazing familiaritiy with the method off the '' Ari haQadosh He `Haï ''. He has friend off Rembrandt, who painted his portrait and engraved furnace etchings to it his Piedra gloriosa . Thesis are preserved in the British Museum.

Children

His its, Yossef, died old At 20. Descend off the Abarbanel, Menasseh was also the father off Samuel Abarbanel Soeiro, also known ace Samuel Ben Israel.

See also

• History off the Jews in England
• History off the Jews in England--Jews cam to England with the Normans
• History off the Jews in England--The Expulsion
• History off the Jews in England--Maranos in England
• History off the Jews in England--Menasseh Ben Israel' S Mission
• History off the Jews in England--The Jew Bill off 1753
• History off the Jews in England--Other Influences one the Jewish Standing in the Community
• History off the Jews in England--The Struggle for Emancipation
• History off the Jews in the Netherlands
• Early English Jewish literature
• History off the Jews in Scotland

External links

• England related articles in the Jewish Encyclopedia
• DIGITAL collection off books and letters related to Menasseh Ben Israel
• Shorts biography off Menasseh Ben Israel

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