Menahem Mann Ben Solomon ha-Levi Amelander was a Dutch-Jewish author and historian of the 18th century. He died before 1767.
Work His 1743 Old Yiddish chronicle, Sheyris Yisroel (Sheʼerit Yiśraʼel, Remnant of Israel) is a continuation of his Yiddish translation of Josippon with a general history of the Jews in the diaspora until 1740. He also drew on the history of Jacques Basnage. Maks Erik and Israel Zinberg considered it the foremost representative of its genre. It was cited by Abraham Trebitsch with his Qorot ha-'Ittim and Abraham Chaim Braatbard with his Ayn Naye Kornayk. Zinberg called it "the most important work of Old Yiddish historiographical literature". It is a continuation of the traditional track of Jewish historiography. It inspired Benzion Dinur and Simon Dubnow and the maskilim. It is considered one of the first original Jewish histories composed in Yiddish. It continued to be reprinted into the 19th century.
Further reading Menaḥem Man Amelander, “Sheyris Yisroel (Remnant of Israel)” (manuscript, Amsterdam, 1743; first printing 1744). Republished as: Keter kehunah ve-hu sefer Yosipon bi-leshon Ashkenaz, ed. Menahem ben Solomon Amelander, vol. 2 (Fürth: Be-vet uvi-defus Ḥayim ben Tsevi Hirsh, 1767), pp. 92a–96b (ch. 34). The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography Goudsmit's edition of Sheyrit Yisrael; Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl, No. 6365; Fürst, Bibl. Jud. ii. 320; Rabbinovicz, Katalog, No. 12 (No. 917); Roest, Cat. der Rosenthal'schen Bibl. i. 63, 64; Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books, Brit. Mus. p. 531; Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, pp. 218, 562.
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