ASHE, THOMAS (1836-1889), English poet, studied at Cambridge and then became a schoolmaster. Of his complete works (ed. 1886), the most notable are Dryope (1861), Pictures (1865), and the classical drama, The Sorrows of Hypsipyle (1867). Ashe is diffuse in style and at times his poetic quality is scarcely dis cernible.
a town of Manchuria, China, 125 m. N.E. of Kirin, and 3o m. S. of the Sungari. It was governed by a mandarin of the second class, but is now under the administration of the local government. Pop. about 75,000.
(known as Rosh), Jewish rabbi and codifier, was born in the Rhine district c. 1250, and died in Toledo 1327. Endangered by the persecutions inflicted on the German Jews in the 13th century, 'Asher fled to Spain, where he was made rabbi of Toledo. A disciple of Meir of Rothenburg, 'Asher's sole interest was in the Talmud. He was a man of austere piety, profound and narrow. He was a determined op ponent of the study of philosophy, and thus was antipathetic to the Spanish spirit. Compiled between 1307 and 1314, 'Asher's Compendium is printed in most editions of the Talmud, and it differed from previous compendia in greater simplicity and in the deference shown to German authorities. 'Asher's son Jacob, who died at Toledo before 1340, was the author of the four Turim, a very profound and popular codification of rabbinical law. This work was the standard code until Joseph Qaro (Karo) directly based on it his widely accepted code of Jewish law, the Shulhan `Arukh.
