Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604-November 20, 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh Ben Israel (also, Menasheh ben Yossef ben Yisrael, also known with the Hebrew acronym, MB"Y), was a Portuguese-Jewish rabbi, kabbalist, scholar, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebrew printing press (named "Emeth Meerets Titsma`h") in Amsterdam in 1626. Wikipedia
Menasseh Ben Israel, 5387 ( = 1627). Edited by Salom ben Jozef Gallego, author of a Hebrew poem on f.1v. cf.uba.uva.nl/en/collections/rosenthaliana/menasseh/colle...
Yet, with all his secular knowledge and fame, Menasseh ben Israel devoted most of his time and interest to Jewish studies and to the defense of the Bible against many critics. www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=111879
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