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    IPA] 1604 – 20 November 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh or Menashe ben Israel (מנשה בן ישראל), was a Jewish scholar, rabbi, kabbalist, writer...
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  • It happened directly after two events. Firstly a prominent rabbi Menasseh ben Israel came to the country from the Netherlands to make the case for Jewish...
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  • Retrieved 21 May 2014. Lucien Wolf; Menasseh Ben Israel (1901). Menasseh Ben Israel's mission to Oliver Cromwell - Mikweh Israel p.17-56. Macmillan & Co., Limited...
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  • sportscaster Menasseh Ben Israel (1604–1657), Portuguese rabbi and scholar Rinus Israël (born 1942), Dutch football player and manager Robert Decatur Israel (1826-1908)...
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  • physician and rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel, Portuguese rabbi and printer Meshullam Phoebus ben Israel Samuel, Polish rabbi Moses Ben Israel Isserles, Polish...
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    in the wilds of South America".: 69  In 1649, Menasseh ben Israel published his book, The Hope of Israel, in Spanish and Latin in Amsterdam; it included...
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    millenarianism was widespread in England. This belief was so prevalent that Menasseh Ben Israel, in his letter to Oliver Cromwell and the Rump Parliament, appealed...
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  • Jew who in 1644 persuaded Menasseh Ben Israel, a rabbi of Amsterdam, that he had found one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel living in the jungles of the...
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  • Solomon Luria (Maharshal, 1510–1573), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist Menasseh Ben Israel (1604–1657), 17th-century Dutch rabbi and advocate of resettlement...
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    Kaddish elevates the soul every year to a higher sphere in paradise." Menasseh ben Israel also adopts this perspective. Ḥasidic Jews traditionally celebrate...
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  • "persecuted by the Inquisition." Cecil Roth, in his major biography of Menasseh ben Israel, then completes the picture writing that Abraham Pereyra had amassed...
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    and Hugh Peter, came into contact with Dutch-based Jews such as Menasseh ben Israel and advocated Jewish resettlement in England (they had been banned...
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    Berg, Jan (1989). "Menasseh ben Israel, Henry More and Johannes Hoornbeeck on the Pre-existence of the Soul". Menasseh Ben Israel and His World. Brill...
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    Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres (1590–1640), French soldier Menasseh Ben Israel (1604–1657), Portuguese Rabbi and publisher Manasseh Cutler (representative)...
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  • Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel met Cromwell in 1655 in order to discuss the admission of Jews into England. Cromwell did not agree to all the rights that Ben Israel...
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  • the cantillation marks. Immanuel Aboab Menasseh Ben Israel Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas Saul Levi Morteira Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah Isaac Aboab da Fonseca Jacob...
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  • (2009). "In Signum Benevoli Affectus I. Seven Album Inscriptions by Menasseh Ben Israel" (PDF). Zutot. 6 (1): 46. doi:10.1163/187502109790213023. "Zulma...
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  • of halakha: Thesouro dos Dinim ("Treasury of religious rules") by Menasseh Ben Israel (1604–1657) is a reconstituted version of the Shulkhan Arukh, written...
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    Peninsula. There was once a Synagogue of Funchal, which is now disused. Menasseh Ben Israel was born in Madeira in 1604. Jews from Morocco arrived in 1819 and...
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    expelled from the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam; Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel, trained as a rabbi in Amsterdam; Uriel da Costa a precursor of Spinoza...
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    polemicist. His rival was the much more well-known Amsterdam rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel. He was known for corresponding widely with Christian leaders and...
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  • Pardo was appointed hakham together with Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, Menasseh Ben Israel, and Saul Levi Morteira. He was also a trustee of the Jewish cemetery...
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    As a spin-off of his researches on the character and real person Menasseh Ben Israel for his novel Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle translated in ten languages...
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    right for Jews to propose their official readmission. In the 1650s, Menasseh Ben Israel, a rabbi and leader of the Dutch Jewish community, approached Cromwell...
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    in the 17th century slave trade.[citation needed] Samuel Ben Israel, son of Menasseh Ben Israel, is buried in Middelburg at the Sephardic burial site located...
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  • of Law, Maimonides, Moses of Coucy, Ibn Ezra, Leon of Modena and Menasseh Ben Israel. The jurists referring to them were Grotius, Selden, Ayala, Gentili...
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  • Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999. with Yosef Kaplan and Henry Méchoulan, Menasseh Ben Israel and His World, Leiden: Brill, 1989. with Donald R. Kelley, The Shapes...
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    rabbi Menasseh ben Israel, who promoted dialogue with Christians and helped organize debates at the Atheneum. Spinoza biographer Jonathan I. Israel contends...
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    inscription from a book by his friend, the learned Rabbi and printer, Menasseh ben Israel, yet mistranscribed one of the characters and arranged them in columns...
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    as "Palache") descendants of brothers Samuel and Joseph Pallache Menasseh Ben Israel (1604–1657), rabbi and friend of Rembrandt van Rijn Joseph Pardo...
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