ALASHKAR, JOSEPH BEN MOSES
- ALASHKAR, JOSEPH BEN MOSES
- ALASHKAR, JOSEPH BEN MOSES (c. 1500), rabbinical author and
Hebrew poet. A victim of the expulsion from Spain in 1492, Alashkar
settled in Tlemcen (Algeria) where he became the head of a yeshivah. He
was a fertile writer, but none of his works was published. They include
(1) Avrekh, commentaries on Rashi; (2) Edut
bi-Yhosef, commentary on the laws of ritual slaughter in
Maimonides' Code; (3) Mirkevet ha-Mishneh, on
Pirkei Avot; (4) Refu'at ha-Nefesh, religious
ethics.
In addition, he wrote poems and books in verse form, among them a
paraphrase of the tractate Avot, verses on the 70 kinds of
terefah, two poems in honor of his contemporary and fellow
countryman, solomon b. simeon duran , as well as several religious
odes and hymns.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Carmoly, in: Oẓar Neḥmad, 3 (1860), 105–10; Fuenn, Keneset,
456; Davidson, Oẓar, 4 (1933), 400.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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