Menasseh ben Israel Espionage & secret services ‘A really sweet and warm-hearted

‘A really sweet and warm-hearted read’ – Niamh Hargan

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It is a powerful book about the necessity of ‘the talk’ and what it means to be a teenager in our times

Menasseh ben Israel Espionage & secret services ‘A really sweet and warm-heartedFrom the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in the seventeenth century Menasseh ben Israel (16041657) was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time, and a pivotal intellectual figure in early modern Jewish history. He was one of the three rabbis of the Portuguese Nation in Amsterdam, a community that quickly earned renown worldwide for its