Note 48 — INTRODUCTION.

1040–1105. Through R. Solomon ben Isaac, the founder of the Germano-French Rabbinical literature, this encouraging allegorical interpretation was introduced into Germany and France, where the suffering Jews obtained consolation. This distinguished commentator, commonly called Rashi, and, through the misleading of Buxtorf, erroneously named Jarchi, was born at Troyes, in Champagne, in 1040, where he also died, about 1105.48