Sasslower, Jacob Koppel Ben Aaron

Russian Masorite of the seventeenth century; lived in Zaslav, government of Volhynia. He wrote "Naḥalat Ya'aḳob" (Sulzbach, 1686), on the accentuations of the Decalogue in Ex. xx. 1-18 for Sabbaths and Pentecost respectively, with a supplement on the Masorah.

Bibliography:

  * Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1179;
  * idem, Jewish Literature, p. 235;
  * Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 396.



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