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Menasseh Ben Israel

Portrait
Name:Menasseh Ben Israel
Gender:male
Born:Lissabon
Died:Middelburg
Father:Joseph Ben Israel (? - ?)
Mother:Rachel Soeira (? - ?)

Marriage:

Children:

Occupations:

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Attributes

Category Attribute Value Date startDate end
Religion DenominationJewish

Relations

Relation Modifier Date startDate end
Academic
professor of Johannes Gerhardi Terentius
Artistic
portrayed by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Business
is employer of Judah Leib ben Mordecai Gimpel
predecessor in business of Elijahu Aboab
Publishing and printing
buys / inherits stock from Elijahu Aboab

References

External biographical records

Secondary sources

  1. Bomford, David, Kirby, Jo, Ashok, Roy, Rüger, Axel & White, Raymond, Rembrandt, London: National Gallery (2006), 110
  2. Feuchtwanger, Naomi, 'An illustrated Minhagim book printed in Amsterdam', in: Offenberg, Adri K., Schrijver, Emile G.L. & Hoogewoud, F.J. (eds.) Treasures of Jewish Booklore: Treasures of Jewish Booklore Marking the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Leeser Rosenthal, 1794-1994, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (1994), pp. 36, 37. <URL: http://cf.uba.uva.nl/nl/publicaties/treasures/text/t16.html>, 36
  3. Heller, Marvin J., Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book, Leiden [etc.]: Brill (2008), 23
  4. Kleerkooper, M.M. & Van Stockum, W.P., De boekhandel te Amsterdam voornamelijk in de 17e eeuw: biographische en geschiedkundige aanteekeningen (2 vols.), [Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van den Nederlandschen boekhandel 10], ’s-Gravenhage: Nijhoff (1914), volume 1: 410-412 & volume 2: 1385
  5. Molhuysen, P.C., Blok, P.J., Knappert, L. & Kossmann, F.K.H. (eds.) Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek (10 vols.), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff (1911-1937), volume 10: 604-613
  6. Nadler, S., Menasseh ben Israel. Rabbi of Amsterdam, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press (2018), s.p.