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Menasseh Ben Israel

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

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Children:

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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, alias: Van Teerns
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. 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
  2. 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
  3. Heller, Marvin J., Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book, Leiden [etc.]: Brill (2008), 23
  4. 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
  5. Nadler, S., Menasseh ben Israel. Rabbi of Amsterdam, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press (2018), s.p.
  6. Bomford, David, Kirby, Jo, Ashok, Roy, Rüger, Axel & White, Raymond, Rembrandt, London: National Gallery (2006), 110