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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 cover

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

Chapter 1: 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
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An edited collection reproduces a series of seventeenth-century pamphlets arguing for the readmission of Jews to England, accompanied by a scholarly introduction, annotations, documents, portraits, and an index. The introduction traces the centuries of exile, the role of Iberian Crypto-Jews, and the political and religious debates that led to negotiations with the English Protectorate. The reprinted tracts include a theological and legal plea, formal addresses to the Protector, and a rejoinder to critics, all presented with editorial notes and documentary material that clarify the arguments and the historical context surrounding the campaign for readmission.

MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL’S
MISSION TO
OLIVER CROMWELL

Menasseh ben Israel

from an Etching by Rembrandt

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

Edited with an Introduction and Notes
By Lucien Wolf
Past-President and Vice-President of the Jewish Historical Society of England Co-Editor of the “Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica,” &c. &c.
Published for the
Jewish Historical Society of England
By MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED, LONDON
1901
TO MY WIFE