Asher, Anshel Ben Moses Baer

Talmudist; lived in the second half of the eighteenth century. He wrote two works: "Ben Emunim" (Son of Faith), Fürth, 1785: and "Ḥiddat Shimshon" (Samson's Riddle), Fürth, 1785. The former is a homiletic commentary on the Bible; the latter an ethical work, divided into three parts.

Bibliography:

  * Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 752;
  * Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 61.



L. G. I. Br.