Menasseh Ben Israel
（重定向自Manasseh Ben Israel）
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![A portrait etching by Rembrandt supposedly depicting Menasseh[1]](/Images/godic/202501/25/Menasseh_ben_Israel1758.jpg")
![Menasseh's grave in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel](/Images/godic/202501/25/Menasseh_T1758.JPG")
![De Resurrectione Mortuorum by Menassah Ben Israel](/Images/godic/202501/25/De_Resurrectione_Mortuorum,_Menassah_Ben_Israel1759.jpg")
Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 – November 20, 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh ben Israel (מנשה בן ישראל), also, Menasheh ben Yossef ben Yisrael, also known with the Hebrew acronym, MB"Y, was a Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebrew printing press (named Emeth Meerets Titsma`h) in Amsterdam in 1626.