Menasseh ben Israel : Rabbi of Amsterdam / Steven Nadler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nadler, Steven, author.

Series:

Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)

Jewish Lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.

Manasseh ben Israel.

Miḳṿeh Yiśraʼel (Manasseh ben Israel).

Hebrew imprints--Publishing--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--17th century.

Hebrew imprints.

Jewish printers--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.

Jewish printers.

Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--17th century.

Jews.

Judaism--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--17th century.

Judaism.

Crypto-Jews--Portugal--History--16th century.

Crypto-Jews.

Printing--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--17th century.

Printing.

Rabbis--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.

Rabbis.

Sephardim--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Biography.

Sephardim.

Sephardim--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--17th century.

Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Biography.

Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Ethnic relations.

Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Biography.#x1E; 0--Eth.

Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Portugal.

Local Subjects:

Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Biography.#x1E; 0--Eth.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages).

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Prologue: On the Houtgracht

2. Manoel/Menasseh

3. On the Nieuwe Houtmarkt

4. The Conciliator

5. "I am not my own master"

6. The Hope of Israel

7. The English Mission

8. Denouement

Appendix: Menasseh ben Israel and Rembrandt

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

0-300-24043-0

OCLC:

1047729207