Asher ben Jacob Parenzo ( Hebrew: אשר בן יעקב פורינץ; fl. 1580–1600) was a Hebrew printer in Venice.
Parenzo was a member of a prominent printing family, which included his brother Meir , one of the best-known Jewish printers of the period. [1] Their father Jacob, also a printer, [2] was a native of Parenzo om Venetian Dalmatia. [3]
He was employed by Giovanni Bragadin in printing a large number of works of Hebrew literature, among them Isaac Abravanel's commentary on the Pentateuch (1579), the Tanakh (1586), and the fourth part of the Turim (1594).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Elbogen, Ismar (1905). "Parenzo, Asher b. Jacob". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 525.