Eliezer 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 1849, 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.