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A life of Menasseh ben Israel : rabbi, printer, and diplomat / by Cecil Roth.
LIBRA BM755.M25 R6 1945
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roth, Cecil, 1899-1970.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- England.
- Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.
- Manasseh ben Israel.
- Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Jews.
- Jews--England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (donor) (Libra copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xii, 373 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates : portrait, facsimiles ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America, 1945.
- Contents:
- The Marrano background
- Early days
- Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel
- Vicissitudes and consolations
- Menasseh the printer
- Menasseh the author
- Menasseh's friends: (i) The Jews
- Menasseh's friends: (ii) The Gentiles
- The hope of Israel
- The mission to England
- Disappointment
- Retrospective.
- Notes:
- "Second Printing, 1945."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has two autographs of "Herman Potok December 1950".
- Potok Collection copy has portrait of Menasseh wanting.
- Libra copy presented to the Penn Libraries by the Board of Governors of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth.
- OCLC:
- 9982555
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