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Portrait of Menasseh Ben Israel
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Born to converso parents and baptized as Manoel Dias Soeiro, Menasseh Ben Israel moved as a boy with his family to Amsterdam, where they reverted openly to Judaism. In 1626, he established the first…

Contributor:

Shalom Italia

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1640–1649

Subjects:

Portrait, Scholarship, Writing, Print, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

History, Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Portrait print of man in skullcap and beard with Latin text in oval frame, Latin text below, and small illustration of man with walking stick and Hebrew book above.
List of Books
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During his life, Samuel Abbas amassed an impressive library that included 1,136 books in different languages—Latin (more than four hundred works), Hebrew, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and…

Contributor:

Samuel Abbas

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1693

Subjects:

Print, Libraries, Rabbis, Translation, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Lists & Catalogues
Printed page with Hebrew and Latin text and small illustration of book with decorative border.
Latin-Hebrew Edition of the Mishnah
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This page comes from the first of six volumes of Guilielmus Surenhuys’s translation of the Mishnah into Latin, printed in Amsterdam. At center is a depiction of Moses and Aaron standing beside a…

Contributor:

Willem Surenhuys

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1698

Subjects:

Print, Oral Torah, Translation, Language and linguistics, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print with central rectangular scene of men at podium surrounded by ten circles with images of figures and animals, and scene at bottom of large crowd outside city.