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Joel ben Simeon, also known as Feibush Ashkenazi (died c.1492) was a 15th-century Jewish scribe and illuminator who worked in
Joel ben Simeon Looking at the Margins of Society
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
and Northern Italy. He is best known for the manuscript today known as the Ashkenazi Haggadah.
Life
Joel ben Simeon was originally from eitherCologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
(where Jews were expelled in 1424) or Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...
. Around the middle of the century he moved to northern Italy, where he travelled between cities to work his trade. He died around 1492.Katrin Kogman-AppelJoel ben Simeon Looking at the Margins of Society
References
15th-century German Jews Jewish scribes (soferim) Artists from North Rhine-Westphalia 1490s deaths {{Judaism-bio-stub