Ostrog: Ostrog, a town of Russia, in the government of Volhynia, 95 m. of Zhitomir, at the confluence of the Vilya with the Goryn. It is an episcopal see of the Orthodox Greek Church, and in the 16th century had a ... [100%] 2022-09-02
Ostrog: Russian city in the government of Volhynia. A Jewish community was probably founded at toward the end of the fourteenth century, when Lutsk was already noted for its important Jewish population. The first publishedreference to the Jews of Ostrog is ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
Isaac Ha-Kohen Of Ostrog: Russian rabbi; lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was the author of a work entitled "Mattenot 'Ani," or "Ḳiẓẓur Mizraḥi," a compendium of Elijah Mizraḥi's commentary on Rashi, with notes (Prague, 1604-09). (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [50%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
Abraham Ben David Of Ostrog (Volhynia): He wrote ("Furnace for Gold"), a commentary on the Targumim to the Pentateuch. Some also attribute to him a treatise on the thirteen hermeneutical rules of Rabbi Ishmael, published at Canterbury in 1597, by the converted Jew Philip Ferdinand. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [40%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]