Eliezer ben Solomon Ashkenazi was a
Rabbi
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and
Talmud
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ical scholar born in
Poland
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about the beginning of the 19th century, who resided afterward in
Tunis
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. He published at
Metz
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in 1849, under the title ''Dibre Hakamim'' ("Words of
heWise"), a selection of 11 ancient manuscripts:
* ''
Midrash Wayosha,'' on the
Pentateuch
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Joseph Caro
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's Commentary on
Lamentations
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Maimonides
Musa ibn Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (); la, Moses Maimonides and also referred to by the acronym Rambam ( he, רמב״ם), was a Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah ...
' ''Hokmat ha-'Ibbur,'' a treatise on the computation of the intercalary month
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Abraham bar Hiyyah's seventh "gate" of the third treatise on the computation of the intercalary month, with a responsum by
Hai Gaon
Hai ben Sherira (Hebrew: האי/י בר שרירא) better known as Hai Gaon (Hebrew: האי/י גאון, חאיי גאון), was a medieval Jewish theologian, rabbi and scholar who served as Gaon (Hebrew), Gaon of the Talmudic Academies in Babylo ...
on the calculation of the years since the Creation
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Moses Narboni
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's ''Maamar ba-Behirah,'' a treatise on free-will
* ''Nussah Ketab,'' a letter from
Joshua Lorki on religion
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Isaac Ardotiel's ''Meliẓah 'al ha-'Et,'' a prose poem on the pen
*
David ben Yom-tob's ''Yesodot ha-Maskil,'' 13 articles of belief of an enlightened man
* ''RaMBaM,'' a letter from Maimonides addressed to Rabbi Japhet the Dayyan
* A letter by
Elijah of Italy, written from Palestine to his family at Ferrara, in 1438
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Jacob Provençal's ''Be-Debar Limmud ha-Hokmah,'' on the study of science.
S. Munk has written an introduction to this collection, which contains also, as an appendix, a
French translation of ''Yesodot ha-Maskil'' by "H. B."
Ashkenazi published also ''Ta'am Zekenim'' ("Taste
fOld Men"), edited by R. Kirchheim, a collection of old manuscripts and prints dealing with Jewish literature and history in the Middle Ages (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1854).
References
Its bibliography:
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Joseph Zedner
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After completing his education, he acted as teacher in the Jewish school in Strelitz (Mecklenburg), where the lexicographer Daniel Sanders wa ...
, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. pp. 56, 57;
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William Zeitlin
William Zeitlin (; – 1921) was a Russian scholar and bibliographer.
Biography
William Zeitlin was born in Homel, Mogilev Governorate, into a prominent Jewish family from Shklov.
His major work was ''Kiryat Sefer'', or ''Bibliotheca Hebraica P ...
, Bibliotheca Hebraica, p. 7.
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19th-century Tunisian rabbis
19th-century Polish rabbis
19th-century Polish scholars