BRILL, AZRIEL:

Hungarian rabbi and author; lived in the first half of the nineteenth century; assistant rabbi (dayyan) at Pest, Hungary. He wrote: "Hadrat Ḳodesh" (Beauty of Holiness), containing the Mishnah treatises, Rosh ha-Shanah, and Yoma, with a commentary and German translation; a collection of the prescriptions and prayers for the ten penitential days; also an essay on the Temple ritual for the Day of Atonement, and a Jewish calendar up to 6000 (Ofen, 1827).

Bibliography:
  • Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. No. 4469;
  • Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 132;
  • Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 134.
L. G. I. Ber.
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