Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi
Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi (1550–1625), of Janów (near Lublin, Poland), was the author of the Tseno Ureno, sometimes called the "Women's Bible", a Yiddish-language prose work written around the 1590s whose structure parallels the weekly portions of the Pentateuch and Haftorahs used in Shabbat services. He also wrote a supplement, the Melitz Yosher () and Seyfer Ha Magid (). Ha Magid, which literally means "the book that tells" or "the messenger book" in the biblical sense, as in "the messenger came to David saying" in , is a similar compilation on the Prophets and Hagiographa. See also

Role of women in Judaism
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Yiddish language
Yiddish literature

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Yiddish-language writers
16th-century Polish rabbis
16th-century Polish writers
People from Janów Lubelski County
Jewish translators of the Bible

17th-century Polish rabbis
1550 births
1625 deaths