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ASCHKENAZI, ELIEZER BEN ELIJAH HAROFÈ Yosef Lekach [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text]. FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated woodcut architectural arch. Wide margins ff. 83. Ex-library, stained, marginal repair to title, stamps removed on opening and closing leaves. Later marbled boards, distressed. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Cremona 47; Benayahu, Cremona 44. Cremona: Christopher Draconi 1576 Eliezer Aschkenazi held influential positions in widely scattered Jewish communites from Egypt, Cyprus and Italy to the major 16th-century centers in Poland, where he died. His Biblical exegesis is permeated with the contemporary rationalistic spirit of rabbinical scholarship. Eliezer Aschkenazi held influential positions in widely scattered Jewish communites from Egypt, Cyprus and Italy to the major 16th-century centers in Poland, where he died. His Biblical exegesis is permeated with the contemporary rationalistic spirit of rabbinical scholarship.