Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi
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Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi (1550–1625) of Yanova (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. [Liptzin, 1972, 19]
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- Liptzin, Sol, A History of Yiddish Literature, Jonathan David Publishers, Middle Village, NY, 1972, ISBN 0-8246-0124-6.
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