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Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi

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Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi (1550–1625), of Janów (near Lublin, Poland), was the author of the Tseno Ureno, sometimes called the "Women's Bible", a Yiddish-language prose work written in c.1590s whose structure parallels the weekly portions of the Pentateuch and Haftorahs used in Shabbat services.[1]

He also authored a supplement, the Melitz Yosher (Template:Hebrew) and Seyfer Ha Magid (Template:Hebrew). Ha Magid, which literally means "the book that tells" or "the messenger book" in the biblical sense, as in "the messenger came to David saying" in 2 Samuel 15:13, is a similar compilation on the Prophets and Hagiographa.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Katz, Dovid (2007). Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish (2 ed.). New York: Basic Books. p. 95. ISBN 0-465-03730-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

Further reading

  • Liptzin, Sol (1972). A History of Yiddish Literature. Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David. ISBN 0-8246-0124-6.