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compositions with a Talmudic phraseology, and are therefore in many cases obscure and ungraceful. He had wit and a great command of both Hebrew and Aramaic. In almost all his poems he alludes to the persecutions and to the martyrs of Judaism. He also wrote a commentary on the earlier portions of the
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Ephraim's account of the persecutions of the Jews in Germany, France, and England, between 1146 and 1196, is of great historical value. It is in a great measure the record of his own experiences, which are related impartially, and is among the most valuable of the documents used by medieval
54:, to whom he addressed questions, and Leontin ben Jacob. He had two brothers, Hillel and Kalonymus, both of whom he outlived. As a boy of thirteen he witnessed the bloody persecutions to which the Jews on the 74:, and left there for Cologne only a few days before the massacre of 1187. He lost, however, on this occasion, a large part of his fortune. He seems to have resided usually at 164:, which became the chief source for the similar work of a compiler at the beginning of the fourteenth century, and which is extant in manuscript in 1441: 155:
is a mosaic containing forty-five lines, a combination of Aramaic expressions and phrases used in the Talmud. His Hebrew piyyutim are frequently
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were subjected, and, with many other Jews, found refuge from the fury of the mob in the castle of Wolkenburg, near
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Steinschneider, "Cat. der Hebräischen Handschriften in der Stadtbibliothek zu Hamburg," p. 57
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of his time, although comparatively little is known of his work in the field of
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chronographers in their history of the persecutions during the period of the
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for the synagogue, his selihah "Ta Shema" being especially well known. This
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Ephraim belonged to a prominent family of scholars, which included
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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and writer, known for documenting the massacre of the
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New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 253: 228: 119:; several of them are quoted in 1059:Ephraim ben Isaac of Regensburg 135:enumerates twenty-three of his 1442:12th-century German historians 1197:Moses ben Isaac ben ha-Nessiah 1043:Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg 881:Elhanan ben Isaac of Dampierre 876:Isaac ben Abraham of Dampierre 1: 916:Samuel ben Solomon of Falaise 811:Abraham ben Joseph of Orleans 667:Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne 454:Shem Tov ben Abraham ibn Gaon 1401:Judah Leon ben Moses Mosconi 1314:Eliezer ben Samuel of Verona 1013:Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin 772:Samson ben Joseph of Falaise 1277:Isaiah di Trani the Younger 921:Judah ben Isaac Messer Leon 673:Levi ben Abraham ben Hayyim 541:Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona 460:Meir ben Solomon Abi-Sahula 115:, Moses ben Mordechai, and 1468: 1437:12th-century German rabbis 1177:Eliyahu Menachem of London 1069:Eliezer ben Isaac ha-Gadol 946:Elijah ben Menahem HaZaken 891:Samson ben Abraham of Sens 655:David ben Levi of Narbonne 218:www.jewishencyclopedia.com 15: 1309:Moses ben Meir of Ferrara 1187:Jacob ben Judah of London 926:Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils 1386:Isaac ben Jacob ha-Lavan 1376:Isaac ben Samuel of Acre 896:Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi 826:Haim ben Hananel HaCohen 794:Moses ben Jacob of Coucy 718:Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen 366:Samuel ben Jacob ibn Jam 16:Not to be confused with 1242:Avigdor Cohen of Vienna 1134:Isaac ben Asher ha-Levi 1079:Yehuda HaKohen ben Meir 1025:Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi 969:Meshullam ben Kalonymus 274:The Jewish Encyclopedia 1114:Jacob ben Judah Landau 1109:Joel ben Isaac ha-Levi 1084:Meir ben Baruch Halevi 693:Abraham of Montpellier 564:Simeon ben Zemah Duran 107:. He frequently wrote 84:Joel ben Isaac ha-Levi 78:. He later studied in 1329:Isaac ben Melchizedek 1324:Joseph Colon Trabotto 1009:(Maharam MeRotenberg) 669:(Raavad II, HaEshkol) 443:Isaac ben Moses Arama 371:Shemariah ben Elhanan 346:Chananel ben Chushiel 1406:Nethanel ben Isaiah‎ 1391:Nathan ben Abraham I 1283:Obadiah of Bertinoro 1001:Mordechai ben Hillel 941:Shemaiah of Soissons 185:'s "Emeḳ ha-Bacha" ( 111:in conjunction with 70:. Later he lived at 1295:(Shibbolei HaLeket) 1212:Berechiah de Nicole 1162:Aaron of Canterbury 1144:Isaac Asir HaTikvah 1119:Samuel ben Natronai 1074:Judah ben Kalonymus 1039:(Hagahot Maimuniot) 742:Rabbi Abin ha-Gadol 688:Asher ben Meshullam 683:Meshullam ben Jacob 643:Isaac ben Abba Mari 597:Judah ben Barzillai 113:Judah ben Kalonymus 1396:Hillel ben Eliakim 1366:Zerahiah the Greek 1360:Tobiah ben Eliezer 1232:(Terumat HaDeshen) 1064:Samson ben Eliezer 1019:Eliezer ben Nathan 1007:Meir of Rothenburg 976:(Rabbeinu Gershom) 951:Ephraim ben Samson 871:Eliezer of Touques 782:Eliezer ben Samuel 777:Yom Tov of Falaise 649:Abraham ben Nathan 445:(Akeidat Yitzchak) 383:(except Catalonia) 269:"EPHRAIM B. 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