Creator Bio
Anshel of Kraków
16th Century
Anshel of Kraków is believed to be the author of Merkeves ha-mishneh (The Second Chariot), a Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary of biblical words published in Kraków, Poland, in 1534. However, there is scholarly disagreement about who the author of the work was and even whether it is a work that originally dates from well before the sixteenth century.
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Anshel of Kraków, Merkeves ha-mishne (The Second Chariot)
Frontispiece of Anshel of Kraków’s Merkeves ha-mishne (The Second Chariot), a Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary of biblical words. The earliest Yiddish book printed in Poland, it was published in 1534 in…