Menasseh Ben Israel asks Oliver Cromwell in 1657 for the readmittance of the Jews to England after their expulsion by King Edward I in 1290. Manoel Dias Soeiro,1604 -1657, aka Menasseh ben Israel and Menasheh ben Yossef ben Yisrael. Portuguese kabbalist, writer, rabbi, diplomat, publisher, printer and founder of the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam in 1626.

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