Eliezer ben Solomon Ashkenazi

Who is Eliezer ben Solomon Ashkenazi?

Eliezer ben Solomon Ashkenazi was a Rabbi and Talmudical scholar born in Poland about the beginning of the 19th century, who resided afterward in Tunis. He published at Metz in 1845, under the title Dibre Hakamim, a selection of 11 ancient manuscripts:

Midrash Wayosha, on the Pentateuch

Joseph Caro's Commentary on Lamentations

Maimonides' Hokmat ha-'Ibbur, a treatise on the computation of the intercalary month

Abraham bar Hiyyah's seventh "gate" of the third treatise on the computation of the intercalary month, with a responsum by Hai Gaon on the calculation of the years since the Creation

Moses Narboni's Maamar ba-Behirah, a treatise on free-will

Nussah Ketab, a letter from Joshua Lorki on religion

Isaac Ardotiel's Meliẓah 'al ha-'Et, a prose poem on the pen

David ben Yom-tob's Yesodot ha-Maskil, 13 articles of belief of an enlightened man

RaMBaM, a letter from Maimonides addressed to Rabbi Japhet the Dayyan

A letter by Elijah of Italy, written from Palestine to his family at Ferrara, in 1438

Jacob Provençal's Be-Debar Limmud ha-Hokmah, on the study of science.

S. Munk has written an introduction to this collection, which contains also, as an appendix, a French translation of Yesodot ha-Maskil by "H. B."