ETHAUSEN, ALEXANDER BEN MOSES:
German scholar; lived at Fulda in the seventeenth century. He was the author of a Judæo-German work in two parts: the first, "Bet Yisrael," a history of the Jews up to the destruction of the Second Temple; and the second, "Bet ha-Beḥirah," in twenty-four chapters, a description of Jerusalem and of both temples (Offenbach, 1719).
Bibliography:
- Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, p. 225, No. 480;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 259;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 730.
