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Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell - Being a Reprint of the Pamphlets Published by Menasseh ben Israel to Promote the Re-admission of the Jews to England, 1649-1656 (Paperback)
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Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell - Being a Reprint of the Pamphlets Published by Menasseh ben Israel to Promote the Re-admission of the Jews to England, 1649-1656 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries
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Controversial Jewish journalist and political lobbyist Lucien Wolf
(1857 1930) co-founded the Jewish Historical Society of England in
1893, editing this work in 1901. It comprises a series of pamphlets
and tracts written by Menasseh ben Israel (1604 57). An Amsterdam
rabbi and founder of the city's first Hebrew publishing house,
Menasseh was well regarded among non-Jewish theologians. As an
advocate of messianic tradition, he sought to scatter the Jews
across the world, leading him to England in the 1650s to campaign
for their readmission following Edward I's edict of expulsion in
1290. The material presented here is chiefly concerned with
Menasseh's interactions with Oliver Cromwell and shows the rabbi
taking advantage of the contemporary drive for reinstatement for
reasons of religious toleration as well as practical politics. The
work includes the famous petition from the Jewish community and
offers valuable insight into the history of the Jews in England.
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