Menasseh Ben Israel
(1604-1657)
Rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher
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Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 – 20 November 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh ben Israel (מנשה בן ישראל), also known as Menasheh ben Yossef ben Yisrael, also known with the Hebrew acronym, MB"Y or MBI, was a Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer, publisher, and founder of the first Hebrew printing press (named Emeth Meerets Titsma`h) in Amsterdam in 1626.
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1604 Madeira Island, Kingdom of Portugal
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20 November 1657 (aged 53) Middelburg, Dutch Republic
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