Jehiel ben Asher was a Jewish

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 liturgical

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 poet; flourished in Andalusia

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 in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He was the author of four liturgical poems, mentioned by Zunz ("L. G. " p. 520), and of a dirge

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 of twenty-five strophe

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s on the persecution of the Jews in Spain

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 in 1391. Jehiel was also the author of a poetical work entitled "Ma'aseh 'Ugah," published, together with Profiat Duran

Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi

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's "Iggeret Al Tehi Ka-Aboteka," at Constantinople

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 about 1577. Firkovich claims to have seen in the possession of a Karaite of Constantinople named Joseph Ḳimḥi a manuscript containing a poem by Jehiel, entitled "Ha-Rewayah."