[SCHOLARSHIP] Shmuel Yaffe ASHKENAZI (1530–1585) Yefé Mareh, Amsterdam, 1727. Folio volume. (Worn half-cloth binding). This important work of rabbinic commentaries on the Jerusalem Talmud is the work of Shmuel Yaffe Ashkenazi, who served as a rabbi and rector of a rabbinical school in Constantinople. He is extensively cited by his contemporaries, who held him in high esteem. Keywords: Judaica, Jewish, Hebrew, rabbis, Torah, Hebrew, Hebraica, Judaism, synagogue, Zionism, Passover, Haggadah, Passover, menorah, Hanukkah, Torah, Juden, Israelite, Israel, antisemitism, Dreyfus, Megillah, Sephardic, ketubah