Table of Contents

Foreword
Abbreviations
Editions and translations

Introduction
Amsterdam: From the Marranos to a Portuguese Jewish Community
Menasseh ben Israel: A New Look at his Life and Work, 1604-1657
Esperanca de Israel, 1650
Wall's English Translation of the Latin Text
A Note on the English Translation
Facsimile of the Title Page
The Epistle Dedicatory
Menasseh ben Israel to the Courteous Reader
The Authors of Other Nations, which are Quoted in this Treatise
The Hebrew Books, and Authors
The Relation of Antonio Montezinos
The Hope of Israel A Note on Moses Wall by Richard H. Popkin

Bibliography
Index of Place and Proper Names

About the Author

Henri Mechoulan is Director of Research at the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, Paris. Gerard Nahon is Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sciences Religieuses), Paris.

Reviews

'The editors are to be commended not merely for their editions of the text, but more specifically for their most informative and detailed introduction. Its ninety-five pages provide a scholarly but immensely readable background to Menasseh's life and times.'
Jewish Chronicle

'Doubly welcome. The editors' introduction is admirable in its elucidation of Menasseh's life and times, the Marrano background and the messianic atmosphere of the mid-seventeenth century.'
L. K., Polin