Rashi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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RASHI ra she, 1040 1105, Jewish exegete, grammarian, and legal authority...thinkers as early as the 12th cent. See H. Hailperin, Rashi and His World (1957); M. Liber, Rashi (1906, repr. 1970); J. Gelles, Peshat and Derash...