Eliezer Ben Jacob Bellin Ashkenazi

German scholar of the seventeenth century. He prepared a calendar ("'Ibronot," Lublin, 1615) based upon the work of Jacob Marcaria (Riva di Trento, 1561), and improved by the addition of a circular table, which facilitated the determination of holidays and other important dates. It was reprinted at Lublin (1640) and Frankfort-on-the-Oder (1691).

Bibliography:

  * Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, p. 204;
  * Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 122;
  * Zarfati, in Jost's Annalen, 1840, p. 344;
  * Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 958.



G. M. Sel.