Annaliese's tribute

Annaliese Singh is creating a statue in tribute to Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi (1550–1625) who wrote Tze'nah u-Re'nah, an early version of the bible written specifically for women (as it was in Yiddish rather than Hebrew). She is using Adrian Palamiter as her model for the learned scholar. Ashkenazi acknowledged the debt he owed in his research to Rashi (1040-1105), who died 52 years before the birth of Richard Coeur de Lion (1157-1199). The English king died in Acquitaine 5 years before Maimonides died in Fastut (Cairo) in 1204. When he died, Maimonides is thought to have been reading his copy of the ethical works of Avicebron, the neoplatonic poet and philosopher from Málaga, known to us today as Ibn G'virol (1021-1058).