Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi

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Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi

Polish writer

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development of Yiddish literature

In Yiddish literature: Old Yiddish literature
Tsenerene) by Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi. The text is a loose paraphrase of the biblical passages that are read in the synagogue: the Five Books of Moses, the supplementary readings (haftarot), and the five scrolls (megillot). First published about 1600, Tsenerene incorporated a wide selection of commentaries…
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work on “Tz’enah u-Re’na”

In biblical literature: German versions
The version of Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi of Janów, known as the Tzʾenah u-Reʾna (Lublin, 1616), became one of the most popular and widely diffused works of its kind.
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