Menasseh Ben Israel’s Apology for the Jews.

Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 – November 20, 1657), better known by his Hebrw 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. Menasseh was born on Madeira Island in 1604, with the name Manoel Dias Soeiro, a year after his parents had left mainland Portugal because of the Inquisition.