BASHYAZI, HILLEL BEN MOSES:
Karaite scholar; lived at Constantinople in the first half of the sixteenth century. He was the author of a commentary upon the Karaite prayer-book entitled "Tehillat Adonai" (The Praise of God). The work is still extant in manuscript and is quoted by Simḥah Yiẓḥaḳ Luzki in "Oraḥ Ẓaddiḳin."
Bibliography:
- Jost, Gesch. des Judenthums und Seiner Secten, ii. 370;
- Neubauer, Aus der Petersburger Bibliothek, p. 64.
