Eliezer ben Solomon Ashkenazi was a Rabbi and Talmudical scholar born in Poland about the beginning of the 19th century, who resided afterward in Tunis. He published at Metz in 1845, under the title Dibre Hakamim ("Words of [the] Wise"), a selection of 11 ancient manuscripts:
Midrash Wayosha, on the PentateuchJoseph Caro's Commentary on LamentationsMaimonides' Hokmat ha-'Ibbur, a treatise on the computation of the intercalary monthAbraham bar Hiyyah's seventh "gate" of the third treatise on the computation of the intercalary month, with a responsum by Hai Gaon on the calculation of the years since the CreationMoses Narboni's Maamar ba-Behirah, a treatise on free-willNussah Ketab, a letter from Joshua Lorki on religionIsaac Ardotiel's Meliẓah 'al ha-'Et, a prose poem on the penDavid ben Yom-tob's Yesodot ha-Maskil, 13 articles of belief of an enlightened manRaMBaM, a letter from Maimonides addressed to Rabbi Japhet the DayyanA letter by Elijah of Italy, written from Palestine to his family at Ferrara, in 1438Jacob Provençal's Be-Debar Limmud ha-Hokmah, on the study of science.S. Munk has written an introduction to this collection, which contains also, as an appendix, a French translation of Yesodot ha-Maskil by "H. B."
Ashkenazi published also Ta'am Zekenim ("Taste [of] Old Men"), edited by R. Kirchheim, a collection of old manuscripts and prints dealing with Jewish literature and history in the Middle Ages (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1854).
