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Jehiel ben Asher
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
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Liturgical poet; flourished in Andalusia in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He was the author of four liturgical poems, mentioned by Zunz ("L. G. " p. 520), and of a dirge of twenty-five strophes on the persecution of the Jews in Spain in 1391. Jehiel was also the author of a poetical work entitled "Ma'aseh 'Ugah," published, together with Profiat Duran's "Iggeret Al Tehi Ka-Aboteka," at Constantinople about 1577. Firkovich claims to have seen in the possession of a Karaite of Constantinople named Joseph Ḳimḥi a manuscript containing a poem by Jehiel, entitled "Ha-Rewayah."
Bibliography:
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1273;
- idem, Jewish Literature, p. 152;
- Dukes, in Orient, Lit. 11:251;
- Ha-Karmel, 2:385.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Jehiel ben Asher'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/j/jehiel-ben-asher.html. 1901.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Jehiel ben Asher'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/j/jehiel-ben-asher.html. 1901.
