Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi
- 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 1616 Yiddish-language prose work whose structure parallels the weekly portions of the Pentateuch and Haftorahs used in Shabbat services.
ee also
*Role of women in Judaism
*Tzeniut
References
*Liptzin, Sol, "A History of Yiddish Literature", Jonathan David Publishers, Middle Village, NY, 1972, ISBN 0-8246-0124-6.
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