PRERAU, BENJAMIN WOLF:

Moravian Hebraist; lived at Prerau in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He published Bedersi's "Baḳḳashat ha-Memin," to which he added a German translation, a Hebrew commentary, and an introduction in which each word, as in the work itself, begins with the letter "mem" (Brünn, 1799). He was the author of "Ben Yemini," a supercommentary on Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch (Vienna, 1823).

Bibliography:
  • Fürst, Bibl. Jud. iii. 121;
  • Zeitlin, Bibl. Hebr. Post-Mendels. pp. 278-279.
E. C. P. Wi.
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