JAGEL, ABRAHAM BEN CHANANIAH DEI GALICCHI.

Venice

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Eisheth Chayil [on the concluding chapter of Book of Proverbs]. ff. 24. Daniel Zanetti, 1606. * Bound with: SORESINA, JACOB BEN JOSEPH. Seder Hanikur [on the porging of meat]. Text with illustrations and translation of terms into Italian, Spanish and German—all in Hebrew characters. ff. 8. (Giovanni di Gara, 1595). * And: Massarani, Abraham ben Isaac. Sepher ha’Galuth Veha’Peduth [“Exile and Deliverance”]. ff. 28. (1634).

Vinograd, Venice 1002; 807;1204

A brief summary of each text: I: Commentary to the celebrated song of praise to the “Virtuous Woman” and on the obligations that devolve upon a wife in upholding her household and relations with her husband. II:The procedure of nikur or porging the meat, i.e. removing the sciatic nerve from the thigh, is so intricate and time-consuming that it has not been practiced in the United States for some time. (Rather the hindquarters of the animal are sold to the Gentile meat-market). The knowledge of nikur has been retained by some ritual slaughterers In Eretz Israel. Recently, the veterinarian I.M. Levinger has devoted to the subject a monograph complete with photos. III: The worst disaster in the history of Mantuan Jewry occurred in 1629-1630, when the city was sacked by the soldiers of Emperor Ferdinand II and her Jews banished - eventually, the Jews of Mantua were allowed to return. See EJ, vol. XI, col. 896