Yoseph Lekach [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text].

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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

Est: $400 - $600

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.