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
Wolf, _Middle Age_, p. 68; Graetz, vol. ix. p. 494.
Footnote 10:
_Historia de los Judios de España_, vol. iii. p. 357.
Footnote 11:
Wolf, _Crypto-Jews_, loc. cit.
Footnote 12:
Wolf, _Middle Age_, pp. 61–63.
Footnote 13:
De Castro, _Auswahl von Grabsteinen_, Part I. p. 28.
Footnote 14:
Rycaut, _History of the Turkish Empire_ (1687), vol. ii. pp. 174, _et
seq._
Footnote 15:
_Infra_, pp. 143–145.
Footnote 16:
Tracts on Liberty of Conscience, 1614–1661 (Hanserd Knollys Soc.), pp.
28, 30–31, 47, 71.
Footnote 17:
Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. VII., MSS. of Sir F. Graham, pp. 401–403.
Footnote 18:
See reprint by Hanserd Knollys Soc., p. 141. For Roger Williams’s
services to the cause of Jewish Toleration, see Wolf, “American
Elements in the Resettlement” (_Trans. Jew. Hist. Soc._, vol. iii. pp.
77–78), and Straus, “Roger Williams, the Pioneer of Religious
Liberty,” pp. 172–178.
Footnote 19:
Edwards, _Gangræna_, Part III. p. 103.
Footnote 20:
Art. 10. See also his “Good Work for a Good Magistrate” (1651), pp.
53, 90.
Footnote 21:
_Mercurius Pragmaticus_, Dec. 19–26, 1648.
Footnote 22:
Firth, “Notes on the History of the Jews in England, 1648–1660.”
_Trans. Jew. Hist. Soc._, vol. iv.
Footnote 23:
“The Petition of the Jews for the Repealing of the Act of Parliament
for their Banishment out of England” (Lond., 1649).
Footnote 24:
Fuller, “A Pisgah-sight of Palestine,” Book V. p. 194.
Footnote 25:
Calendar State Papers, Dom. 1623–25. p. 435.
Footnote 26:
Whitelock, “Memorials,” p. 397.
Footnote 27:
De Castro, _Auswahl_, loc. cit.
Footnote 28:
Edwards, _Gangræna_, i. p. 121; ii. pp. 26, 31; “Middlesex County
Records,” vol. iii. pp. 186–87; _Anabaptisticum Pantheon_, p. 233;
Hickes, _Peculium Dei_, pp. 19–26. There are many other scattered
references in the literature of the period to this curious movement.
Footnote 29:
A good life of Menasseh ben Israel has yet to be written. Short
biographies have been published by Kayserling (English translation in
_Miscellany of Hebrew Literature_, vol. ii.); the Rev. Dr. H. Adler,
Chief Rabbi of the British Empire (_Trans. Jew. Hist. Soc._, vol. i.);
and Graetz (_Geschichte der Juden_, vol. x.). None of these is
exhaustive, or based on bedrock material.
Footnote 30:
“Gratulação ao seren. Raynha Henri. Maria, dignissima corsorte ao
august; Carlo, Rey da Grande Britannia, Francia e Hebernia” (Amst.,
1642).
Footnote 31:
Harl. Misc., vol. vii. p. 623; _infra_, p. lxxvii.
Footnote 32:
Thorowgood, “Jews in America” (1660), Postscript to the “Epistle
Dedicatory.”
Footnote 33:
The Declaration of the Unity of God, the fundamental teaching of
Judaism (Deut. vi. 4–9). _Shema_ means “Hear,” and it is the first
word of verse 4: “Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one God.”
Footnote 34:
Dury, “Epistolary Discourse to Mr. Thomas Thorowgood” (1649).
Footnote 35:
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