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Menasseh Ben Israel

1604 - 1657

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Manoel Dias Soeiro (Dutch: [maːˈnul ˈdijɑ(s) ˈsʋeːroː]; 1604 – 20 November 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh or Menashe ben Israel (מנשה בן ישראל), was a Jewish scholar, rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer, publisher, and founder of the first Hebrew printing press (named Emeth Meerets Titsmah) in Amsterdam in 1626. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Menasseh Ben Israel is the 2,093rd most popular writer (up from 2,590th in 2019), the 2,361st most popular biography from France (up from 2,832nd in 2019) and the 294th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Menasseh Ben Israel ranks 2,093 out of 7,302. Before him are Marcus Tullius Tiro, Waldemar Bonsels, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Marjorie Boulton, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, and Yoshida Kenkō. After him are Armin T. Wegner, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Ahmad ibn Mājid, Thomas Merton, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, and Mircea Cărtărescu.

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Among people born in 1604, Menasseh Ben Israel ranks 11. Before him are John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, İslâm III Giray, Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, Claudia de' Medici, Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, and Zheng Zhilong. After him are Catherine of Brandenburg, Abraham Bosse, Antoine III de Gramont, Heinrich Albert, Jan Boeckhorst, and Jakob Balde. Among people deceased in 1657, Menasseh Ben Israel ranks 10. Before him are Frans Snyders, William Bradford, Clara Peeters, Balthasar van der Ast, Jacob van Campen, and Gustav Horn, Count of Pori. After him are Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, Kâtip Çelebi, Olimpia Maidalchini, Laura Mancini, Robert Blake, and Hayashi Razan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Menasseh Ben Israel ranks 2,361 out of 6,770. Before him are Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne (1787), Sarah Kofman (1934), Jean-Louis Pons (1761), Olivier Assayas (1955), Micheline Presle (1922), and Antoine Gombaud (1607). After him are Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (1822), Thomas Merton (1915), and Othon de la Roche (1200).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Menasseh Ben Israel ranks 294. Before him are Robert de Boron (1110), Magnus Felix Ennodius (473), Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1960), Isaac the Blind (1160), Pierre Plantard (1920), and François Hotman (1524). After him are Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Thomas Merton (1915), Benoît de Sainte-Maure (1154), Albert Gleizes (1881), Paul Hazard (1878), and Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704).

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