45. ‘The Relation of Antony Montezinos’, trans. Moses Wall, in Menasseh ben Israel, The Hope of Israel, reprinted in Lucien Wolf, Menasseh ben Israel’s Mission to Oliver Cromwell (London, 1901: reprinted Cambridge, 2012). See also Richard H. Popkin, ‘The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Indian Theory’, in Kaplan et al. (eds.), Menasseh ben Israel and his World, 63–8; Benjamin Schmidt, ‘The Hope of the Netherlands: Menasseh ben Israel and the Dutch Idea of America’, in Paolo Bernardini and Norman Fiering (eds.), The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450–1800 (New York, 2001), 86–106;
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