Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi

Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi (1550–1625), of Janów (near Lublin, Poland), was the author of the Tseno Ureno, sometimes called the "Women's Bible", a Yiddish-language prose work written around the 1590s whose structure parallels the weekly portions of the Pentateuch and Haftorahs used in Shabbat services.^[1]

He also wrote a supplement, the Melitz Yosher (מליץ יושר‎) and Seyfer Ha Magid (המגיד‎). Ha Magid, which literally means "the book that tells" or "the messenger book" in the biblical sense, as in "the messenger came to David saying" in 2 Samuel 15:13, is a similar compilation on the Prophets and Hagiographa.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b Katz, Dovid (2007). Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish (2 ed.). New York: Basic Books. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-465-03730-8.

Further reading[edit]

Liptzin, Sol (1972). A History of Yiddish Literature. Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David. ISBN 0-8246-0124-6.

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[Katz2007-1] Katz, Dovid (2007). Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish (2 ed.). New York: Basic Books. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-465-03730-8.

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