Manasseh ben Israel

Standard Name: Manasseh ben Israel

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Margaret Fell
Bonnelyn Young Kunze supposes that, while Manasseh probably never read this work with his name as its title, it made MF the first Quaker to transmit a message to the world.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
211
Textual Features Anna Maria Hall
The novel is set in seventeenth-century England, during the time of Cromwell's protectorate.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997.
145
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Cromwell , Lord Protector, appears as a character.
Hall, Anna Maria. The Buccaneer. R. Bentley, 1840.
66
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
The Buccaneer, the son of a royalist clergyman and his young...
Textual Production Margaret Fell
This is the date given by George Thomason , in his contemporary collection of tracts, to MF 's anonymous For Manasseth ben Israel : The Call of the Jewes out of Babylon.
Thomason uses...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michelene Wandor
It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine?
Wandor, Michelene. The Music of the Prophets. Arc Publications, 2006.
34
In tracing the story to before the Act...

Timeline

5 January 1649: An English widow named Johanna Cartwright,...

Women writers item

5 January 1649

An English widow named Johanna Cartwright , resident in Amsterdam with her son Ebenezer , presented to General Sir Thomas Fairfax a pamphlet whose lengthy title begins The Petition of the Jewes.
Cartwright, Johanna. The Petition of the Jewes. George Roberts, 1649.
title-page, 2, 3

1651: Manasseh ben Israel wrote from Amsterdam...

National or international item

1651

Manasseh ben Israel wrote from Amsterdam to Oliver Cromwell to request legal admission for the Jews to England: he argued that this would help to bring about the birth of the Messiah.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
211 and n1
Alderman, Geoffrey. “Face to Faith”. The Guardian, 31 Dec. 2005, p. 29.
29

October 1655: Manasseh ben Israel arrived in London to...

National or international item

October 1655

Manasseh ben Israel arrived in London to treat with Cromwell about the re-admission of the Jews to England.
“Jewish Encyclopedia”. JewishEncyclopedia.com, 2002.

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