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Menasseh ben Israel : rabbi of Amsterdam / Steven Nadler.
LIBRA BM755.M35 N34 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nadler, Steven M., 1958- author.
- Series:
- Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
- Jewish lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.
- Manasseh ben Israel.
- Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657. Miḳṿeh Yiśraʾel.
- Rabbis--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.
- Rabbis.
- Sephardim--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.
- Sephardim.
- Sephardim--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--17th century.
- Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--17th century.
- Jews.
- Judaism--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--17th century.
- Judaism.
- Jewish printers--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.
- Jewish printers.
- Printing--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--17th century.
- Printing.
- Hebrew imprints--Publishing--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--17th century.
- Hebrew imprints.
- Hebrew imprints--Publishing.
- History.
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Biography.
- Amsterdam (Netherlands).
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Ethnic relations.
- Crypto-Jews--Iberian Peninsula--Portugal--History--16th century.
- Crypto-Jews.
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Biography.#x1E; 0--Eth.
- Miḳṿeh Yiśraʼel (Manasseh ben Israel).
- Ethnic relations.
- Marranos.
- Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Portugal.
- Local Subjects:
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Biography.#x1E; 0--Eth.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 298 pages ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- Rabbi of Amsterdam
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- An illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in the seventeenth century Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time, and a pivotal intellectual figure in early modern Jewish history. He was one of the three rabbis of the "Portuguese Nation" in Amsterdam, a community that quickly earned renown worldwide for its mercantile and scholarly vitality. Born in Lisbon, Menasseh and his family were forcibly converted to Catholicism but suspected of insincerity in their new faith. To avoid the horrors of the Inquisition, they fled first to southwestern France, and then to Amsterdam, where they finally settled. Menasseh played an important role during the formative decades of one of the most vital Jewish communities of early modern Europe, and was influential through his extraordinary work as a printer and his efforts on behalf of the readmission of Jews to England. In this lively biography, Steven Nadler provides a fresh perspective on this seminal figure.
- Contents:
- 1 Prologue: On the Houtgracht p. 1
- 2 Manoel/Menasseh p. 5
- 3 On the Nieuwe Houtmarkt p. 29
- 4 The Conciliator p. 58
- 5 "I am not my own master" p. 93
- 6 The Hope of Israel p. 128
- 7 The English Mission p. 159
- 8 Denouement p. 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish Book of the Year, Winner, 2014 (for Jewish Lives series)
- ISBN:
- 0300224109
- 9780300224108
- OCLC:
- 1024173635
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