ASHKENAZI, JACOB BEN ISAAC. Tse'ena u-Re'ena. Title within woodcut architectural border. [3], 17, 14, 343 leaves. 8vo, early 19th-century marbled boards, worn, crudely rebacked with cloth tape, rear cover loose; contents soiled, outer margins trimmed occasionally entering text, scattered stains, some marginalia in English and blue pencil underscoring; institutional bookplate. Amsterdam: Yosef Proops, 1722
"An exegetical rendering in Yiddish of the Pentateuch, the haftarot, and the Five Scrolls. Composed at the end of the 16th century . . . it gained universal acceptance among Ashkenazi Jewry. Used primarily by women as reading matter on the Sabbath, it has retained its great popularity up to the present day"--EJ XVI, 967. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1196.
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