Bidspirit auction | ASCHKENAZI, ELIEZER BEN ELIJAH HAROFÈ

ASCHKENAZI, ELIEZER BEN ELIJAH HAROFÈ Yoseph Lekach [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text]. FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated woodcut architecural arch. ff. 83. Ex-library, stained, few tears, ff.2-4 misbound. Recent boards, rubbed. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Cremona 47. Cremona: Christoforo Draconi 1576 Eliezer Aschkenazi held influential positions in widely scattered Jewish communites from Egypt, Cyprus and Italy to the major 16th-century centers in Poland, where he died. His Biblical exegesis is permeated with the contemporary rationalistic spirit of rabbinical scholarship. Eliezer Aschkenazi held influential positions in widely scattered Jewish communites from Egypt, Cyprus and Italy to the major 16th-century centers in Poland, where he died. His Biblical exegesis is permeated with the contemporary rationalistic spirit of rabbinical scholarship.