- Abraham ben Elijah of Vilna
- (1750-1808)Polish scholar. His edition of Aggadat Bereshit was the first complete history of midrashic literature. He wrote a critical index to 130 midrashim, Rav Pealim.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
Abraham ben Elijah of Vilna
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