Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi


Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi, of Janów, was the author of the Tseno Ureno, sometimes called the "Women's Bible", a Yiddish-language prose work written around the 1590s whose structure parallels the weekly portions of the Pentateuch and Haftorahs used in Shabbat services.
He also wrote a supplement, the Melitz Yosher and Seyfer Ha Magid. Ha Magid, which literally means "the book that tells" or "the messenger book" in the biblical sense, as in "the messenger came to David saying" in, is a similar compilation on the Prophets and Hagiographa.