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Menasseh Ben Israel

1604 - 1657

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Manoel Dias Soeiro (Dutch pronunciation: [maːˈnul ˈdijɑ(s) ˈsʋeːroː]); (1604 – 20 November 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh ben Israel (מנשה בן ישראל‎) or Menashe ben Israel, also known as Menasheh ben Yossef ben Yisrael, also known with the Hebrew acronym, MB"Y or MBI, was a Jewish scholar, rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer, publisher, and founder of the first Hebrew printing press (named Emeth Meerets Titsma`h) in Amsterdam in 1626. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Menasseh Ben Israel has received more than 188,363 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Menasseh Ben Israel is the 2,398th most popular writer (up from 2,515th in 2019), the 195th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 190th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Portuguese Writer.

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  • 190k

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  • 53.70

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Menasseh Ben Israel ranks 2,398 out of 5,755. Before him are Kyōka Izumi, Siri Hustvedt, Péter Esterházy, Keigo Higashino, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, and Mihail Sadoveanu. After him are T. H. White, Alfonso Sastre, John Webster, Aleksander Chodźko, Rosario Castellanos, and William L. Shirer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1604, Menasseh Ben Israel ranks 13. Before him are Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, İslâm III Giray, Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, Catherine of Brandenburg, Zheng Zhilong, and Antoine III de Gramont. After him are Abraham Bosse, Heinrich Albert, and John Eliot. Among people deceased in 1657, Menasseh Ben Israel ranks 14. Before him are Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, Laura Mancini, Balthasar van der Ast, Jacob van Campen, Andrew Bobola, and Robert Blake. After him are Hayashi Razan, Olimpia Maidalchini, Jacob van Eyck, John Lilburne, Evert van Aelst, and Johann Baptist Cysat.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Menasseh Ben Israel ranks 195 out of 555. Before him are Carlos Seixas (1704), Bento de Góis (1562), Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza (1801), Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark (1211), António Vieira (1608), and Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja (1506). After him are Francisco de Sá Carneiro (1934), Vítor Baía (1969), Vasco Gonçalves (1921), Joaquim de Almeida (1957), Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo (1930), and Pauleta (1973).

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Among WRITERS In Portugal

Among writers born in Portugal, Menasseh Ben Israel ranks 14. Before him are João de Barros (1496), Tomé Pires (1468), Camilo Castelo Branco (1825), Almeida Garrett (1799), Luís Fróis (1532), and António Vieira (1608). After him are Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919), Mariana Alcoforado (1640), Miguel Torga (1907), Francisco de Sá de Miranda (1491), António Ferreira (1528), and Duarte Barbosa (1480).

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