Creator Bio
Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi
17th Century
Not much is known about the translator and writer Joseph ben Eleazer Lipman Ashkenazi, other than that he was part of the Moravian Jewish community of Kremzir. He was forced to flee when the Jewish community was decimated by the Swedes in 1643, and he apparently resettled in Prostitz (now Prostějov, Czech Republic).
Content by Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi
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Lament on the Ukrainian Massacre
This 1648 Yiddish lament by Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi is an immortalization of the Khmel’nyts’kyi massacres that reshaped Eastern European Jewry.
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Lament over the Jews of Kremzir
This 1648 lament by Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi records the destruction of his hometown of Kremzir in the mid-17th century.
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