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. 45, l. 23. “_Moses Egyptius_” = Moses Maimonides.
P. 45, l. 24. “_Abraham bar Ribi Hijah_” = Abraham ben Chijah ha-Nasi
of Barcelona (1065–1136), Jewish astronomical and geometrical
writer; was Minister of Police during the Moorish domination in
Spain (Graetz, “History,” vol. iii. p. 320).
P. 45, l. 24. “_Abraham Zacculo_”: misprint for Zaccuto (d. _c._
1515). He was a Jewish astronomer employed at the Court of Manuel of
Portugal. His works influenced Columbus (Kayserling, “Christopher
Columbus,” pp. 9, 13, 14, 46–51, 112, 113).
P. 45, l. 30. “_The letter (m) in Isa._ ix. 7.” The reference is to
the sixth verse of Isaiah ix., in the first word of which, לםרבה,
the second letter, which should be מ, is written in its final form
ם.
P. 47, l. 13. “_Diogo d’Assumean_”: misprint for Diogo da Asunçao
(Graetz, “History,” vol. iv. p. 711; Kayserling, “Juden in
Portugal,” pp. 282, 292).
P. 47, l. 20. “_The Lord Lope de Veray Alacron_” = Don Lope de Vera y
Alarcon. His martyrdom is the subject of a poem by Antonio Enriquez
Gomez, “Romance al diuin Martir Juda Creyente” (Kayserling,
“Biblioteca Española,” p. 50; Graetz, “Geschichte,” vol. x. pp. 101,
197).
P. 47, l. 38. “_Isaac Castrensis Tartas_” = Isaac de Castro Tartas
(Graetz, “History,” vol. v. p. 33).
P. 48, l. 9. “_Eli Nazarenus._” His real name was Francisco Meldonado
de Silva (“Publications of the American Jew. Hist. Soc.,” vol. iv.
p. 113).
P. 48, l. 13. “_Thomas Terbinon._” Doctor Thomas (Isaac) Trebiño de
Sobremente (“Pub. Amer. Jew. Hist. Soc.,” vol. iv. pp. 124–161).
P. 48, l. 25. “_My booke, De Termino Vitæ_” (English edition by P. T.
[Thomas Pocock]. Lond., 1700).
P. 49, l. 8. “_His wife Benuenida_” = Bienvenida Abravanela
(Kayserling, “Die Jüdischen Frauen,” pp. 77 _et seq._, 111).
P. 49, l. 16. “_Don Selomo Rophe._” Rabbi Solomon ben Nathan
Aschkenazi, surnamed Rophe, or the Physician, was a diplomatist in
the Turkish service who secured the election of Henry of Anjou to
the throne of Poland. (Graetz, “Geschichte,” vol. ix. pp. 396, 399,
438, 580; Levy, “Don Joseph Nasi,” pp. 8 _et seq._).
P. 49, l. 18. “_D. Ben Jaese, Anancus, and Sonsinos, are of great
authority with the Turk._” These are the names of Jewish families
who played an important part in Turkey in the sixteenth century.
This is a chapter of Jewish history on which the historians have as
yet shed little light. The materials are chiefly in manuscript, and
the present author proposes dealing with them in a communication to
the Jewish Historical Society. On the Ben Jaese (Ibn Jachya) family,
the reader may provisionally consult Carmoly, “Chronica Familiæ
Jachya,” and on the Soncinos, Mortara, “Indice Alfabetico.”
P. 49, l. 20. “_Abraham Alholn_”: misprint for Alhulu, treasurer to
the Pasha of Egypt. (See _infra_, p. 86.)
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