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MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL’S

MISSION TO

OLIVER CROMWELL

Menasseh ben Israel from an Etching by Rembrandt

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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

Edited with an Introduction and Notes

By Lucien Wolf

Past-President and Vice-President of the Jewish Historical Society of England Co-Editor of the “Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica,” &c. &c.

Published for the

Jewish Historical Society of England

By MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED, LONDON

1901

TO MY WIFE

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