Elijah B. Azriel Of Wilna

Grammarian and author, died after 1748. He wrote: "Ma'aneh Eliyahu," rules for Hebrew reading, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1704; "Miḳra Ḳodesh," rules of Hebrew grammar, Berlin, 1713; "Miktab me-Eliyahu," a commentary on the "Or Torah" of R. Menahem di Lonsano, Hamburg, 1738; "Zori Gilead," a tale in verse, Rödelheim, 1748; and "Ḳine'uteh de-Eliyahu," novellæ on "Torat Ḥaṭṭa'ot," Amsterdam, 1711.

Bibliography:

  * Fuenn, Ḳiryah Ne'emanah, pp. 103, 104;
  * Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. No, 4942.



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