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Facsimile, Transliteration, Modern Translations and Analysis
Grotius wrote the Remonstrantie around 1615 at the request of the States of Holland, to define the conditions under which Jews were to be admitted to the Dutch Republic. At that time, he was already an internationally recognized legal expert in civic and canonic law. The position taken by Grotius with respect to the admission of the Jews was strongly connected with the religious and political tensions existing in the Dutch Republic of the early 17th century. The Remonstrantie shows how Grotius’s views evolved within the confines of the philosophical and religious concepts of his time. It is an example of tolerance within political limits, analyzed by the author David Kromhout and made accessible through a modern translation.
Facsimile, Transliteration, Modern Translations and Analysis
Grotius wrote the Remonstrantie around 1615 at the request of the States of Holland, to define the conditions under which Jews were to be admitted to the Dutch Republic. At that time, he was already an internationally recognized legal expert in civic and canonic law. The position taken by Grotius with respect to the admission of the Jews was strongly connected with the religious and political tensions existing in the Dutch Republic of the early 17th century. The Remonstrantie shows how Grotius’s views evolved within the confines of the philosophical and religious concepts of his time. It is an example of tolerance within political limits, analyzed by the author David Kromhout and made accessible through a modern translation.
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In Zutot vol. 3 I discussed a manuscript that contained the oldest known copy of the unpublished Hebrew grammar by Menasseh ben Israel. An eighteenth-century Portuguese owner of this manuscript noted that it had been copied by one Jacob Jesurun around 1655–1660. The manuscript remained in the possession of the Jesurun family until 1811, when it was auctioned. Apart from the name of the scribe who copied the manuscript, there is another indication that the Portuguese-Jewish Jesurun family was on good terms with Menasseh. This clue has everything to do with Menasseh’s portrait.
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