Salem, Asher Ben Immanuel

Turkish scholar of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Maṭṭeh Asher" (Salonica, 1748), containing responsa, novellæ on some parts of the "Yad ha-Ḥazaḳah," laws concerning the slaughtering of animals after the method of Jacob Weil, and sermons.

Bibliography:

  * Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, i. 34;
  * Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 660;
  * Zedner. Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 667.



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