ASHKENAZI, NAPHTALI B. JOSEPH:

Preacher at Safed in the sixteenth century; died at Venice in 1602. He wrote a work, entitled "Imre Shefer" (Words of Beauty), containing homiletic and exegetical dissertations on the Bible. The edition of this work published at Venice, 1601, includes several funeral sermons by him.

Bibliography:
  • Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 2020;
  • Conforte, Ḳore ha-Dorot, ed. Cassel, p. 43b.
K. I. Br.
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