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"Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) was one of the best-known rabbis in early modern Europe. In the course of his life he became an important Jewish interlocutor for Christian scholars interested in Hebrew studies and negotiated with Oliver Cromwell and Parliament the return of the Jews to England. Born to a family of former conversos, Menasseh was versed in Christian theology and astutely used this knowledge to adapt the content and tone of his publications to the interests and needs of his Christian readers. Judaism for Christians: Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) is the first extensive study to systematically focus on key titles in Menasseh's Latin works and discuss the success and failure of his strategies of translation in the larger context of early modern Christian Hebraism. Rauschenbach also examines the mistranslation of his books by Christian scholars, who were not yet ready to share Menasseh's vision of an Abrahamic theology and of a republic of letters whose members were not divided by denomination. Ultimately, Menasseh's plans to use Jewish knowledge as an entrée billet for Jews into Christian societies proved to be illusory, as Christian readers understood him instead as a Jewish witness for "Christian truths." Menasseh's Jewish coreligionists disapproved of what they perceived to be his dangerous involvement in Christian debates, providing non-Jews with delicate information. It was only a century after his death that Menasseh became a model for new generations of Jewish scholars." (Roman&Littlefield)

Judaism --- Christianity and other religions --- Messiah --- 296*82 --- Jews --- Religions --- Semites --- 296*82 Dialoog joden - christenen --- Dialoog joden - christenen --- History --- Relations&delete& --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Religion --- Manasseh ben Israel, --- Manasseh ben Joseph ben Israel, --- Menasseh ben Joseph ben Israel, --- Menasheh ben Yiśraʼel, --- Menasse ben Israel, --- Menasseh ben Israel, --- Manasses, --- Ben-Israel, Menasseh, --- Israel, Menasseh Ben-, --- Soeiro, Manuel Dias, --- מנשה בן יוסף בן ישראל --- מנשה בן יוסף בן ישראל, --- מנשה בן ישראל, --- משנה בן ישראל, --- Ben Israel, Menasseh --- Relations --- Brotherhood Week

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This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimulating new discussions at the interface between Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies. It is a collection of substantive, sophisticated and variegated essays, combining case studies with theoretical reflections, organized into three sections: race and blood, metropoles and colonies, and history and memory. Twelve chapters treat converso slave traders, race and early Afro-Portuguese relations in West Africa, Sephardim and people of color in nineteenth-century Curaçao, Portuguese converso/Sephardic imperialist behavior, Caspar Barlaeus’ attitude toward Jews in the Sephardic Atlantic, Jewish-Creole historiography in eighteenth-century Suriname, Savannah’s eighteenth-century Sephardic community in an Altantic setting, Freemasonry and Sephardim in the British Empire, the figure of Columbus in popular literature about the Caribbean, key works of Caribbean postcolonial literature on Sephardim, the holocaust, slavery and race, Canadian Jewish identity in the reception history of Esther Brandeau/Jacques La Fargue and Moroccan-Jewish memories of a sixteenth-century Portuguese military defeat.

Sephardim --- History. --- Judaism and culture. --- Europe-History-1492-. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- History of Early Modern Europe. --- Culture and Judaism --- Culture --- Europe—History—1492-.

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