CORDOVERO, ARYEH LÖB (also called Tarcziner):

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Rabbi of Zamosz, Poland, at the end of the seventeenth century. He wrote a book called "Pene Aryeh Zuṭa" (The Face of the Lion, the Smaller), Wilhelmsdorf, 1720 (according to some printed also in Sulzbach, s.a.); the work is, according to Wolf, an abridgment of his larger work, called "Pene Aryeh Rabbah" (The Face of the Lion, the Larger), an unpublished commentary on the Pentateuch.

Bibliography:
  • Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. iii. 134;
  • Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 746;
  • Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 192;
  • Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 486.
L. G. M. Sel.
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