The Jewish Historical Society of England. Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Whitehall Conference, 1655-1905.

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

R. Tuck & Sons

(London

1905)

Printed in black with red historiated initials. Portraits of Menasseh ben Israel and Oliver Cromwell, each bearing the subject’s signature; facsimile of the Petition of the Crypto-Jews to Cromwell (March 1655-6); back cover illustration is the Arms of Cromwell.

“The Whitehall Conference was convened by Oliver Cromwell and the Council of State in November, 1655, to consider Menasseh ben Israel’s petition, in which were set forth categorically the several “graces and favours” by which it was proposed that the Re-admission of the Jews into England should be effected” (preface).