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, 1649-1656Manasseh ben Israel
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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
Manasseh ben Israel
Jews -- Great Britain
P. 6, l. 21. “_Others to the Ten Tribes._” There is a very voluminous
literature of the Ten Tribes, a bibliography of which has long been
promised by Mr. Joseph Jacobs. Bancroft in his “Native Races of the
Pacific States of North America” discusses the theory of the Hebrew
origin of the Americans (vol. v. pp. 77–95). Santiago Perez Junquera
in his Spanish reprint of “Esperanza de Israel” gives a bibliography
of Spanish writers who have dealt with the problem of the Ten
Tribes. The Jewish legends on the subject, none of which admit the
American theory, have been summarised by Dr. A. Neubauer in the
_Jewish Quarterly Review_ (vol. i. pp. 14, 95, 185, 408). See also
M. Lewin, “Wo wären die Zehn Stämme Israels zu suchen” (1901).
The following selections from the vast literature of the Ten Tribes,
especially in its relation to Menasseh ben Israel, may be recommended to
investigators of this curious craze:—
Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages and Religions through
the chief parts of the world, written by Edw. Brerewood. London,
1635.
Thos. Thorowgood—Jews in America, &c. 1650.
John Dury—Epistolary Discourse to Mr. Thomas Thorowgood. 1650.
Sir Hamon L’Estrange—Americans no Jews. 1652.
Thos. Thorowgood—Jews in America [with] an accurate discourse [by] Mr.
John Eliot. 1660.
Theophili Spizelii—Elevatio Relationis Montezinianæ de repertis in
America tribubus Israeliticis. Basle, 1661.
Account of the Ten Tribes of Israel being in America, originally
published by Menasseh Ben Israel, with observations thereon. By
Robert Ingram, M.A. Colchester, 1792.
The Ten Tribes of Israel historically identified with the aborigines
of the Western Hemisphere. By Mrs. Simon. London, 1826.
The Hope of Israel, presumptive evidence that the aborigines of the
Western Hemisphere are descended from the ten missing tribes of
Israel. By Barbara Anne Simon. London, 1829.
The Remnant Found, or the place of Israel’s hiding discovered, being a
summary of proofs showing that the Jews of Daghistan on the Caspian
Sea are the remnant of the Ten Tribes. By the Rev. Jacob Samuel.
London, 1841.
The Thorn Tree, being a history of thorn worship of the Twelve Tribes
of Israel, but more especially of the Lost Tribes and House of
David. By Theta. London, 1863.
Paläorama. Oceanisch-Amerikanische Untersuchungen und Aufklärungen.
Erlangen, 1868.
Ireland, Ur of the Chaldees. By Anna Wilkes. London, 1873.
Ueber die Abstammung der Englischen Nation. Von D. Paulus Cassel.
Berlin, 1880.
P. 6, l. 29. “_Cordilleræ_,” Spanish. A mountain chain, sometimes, as
here, applied in a specific sense to the Andes.
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