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Mordecai ben Judah (Aryeh Löb) Ashkenazi
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
Dutch ritualist; lived in Amsterdam in the early part of the seventeenth century. He was a disciple of Abraham Rovigo, whose commentary to the Zohar, "Eshel Abraham," he arranged and corrected. It was published, with the text, at Fürth in 1701; his preface to it, entitled "Haḳdamat Eshel Abraham," was published in the preceding year. He wrote also "Miḳweh Yisrael," a treatise on circumcision in Judæo-German, which appeared in 1710 with David of Lida's "Sod Adonai" appended.
Bibliography:- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1667;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 2:326;
- Walden, Shem ha-Gedolim he-Ḥadash, 1:96.
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