aspects of the Qarnē Ōr is the extensive quoting from Ibn Ezra's other works. The commentary of Ibn Ezra on the Torah is a very concise and cryptic work; often, paragraphs that Ibn Ezra has written in other works shed invaluable light on understanding these cryptic interpretations. One of Krinsky's contributions to the study of Ibn Ezra was to explain the meaning of many of the arcane allusions in his commentary. The first volume is preceded by a short history of the Ibn Ezra's life and a bibliography of his works. Attached to the Meḥōqeqē Yehudā is a work Minḥath Yehudā, a very brief super-commentary on Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch, which notes the ancient Rabbinic sources for Rashi's comments, and clarifies the correct reading of Rashi's text. Association with the Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment) Krinsky's annotations in Meḥōqeqē Yehudā make frequent reference to thinkers of the Haskala, such as Heinrich Graetz, S. D. Luzzatto, and especially Moses Mendelssohn. This raises the question of how strong Krinsky's own associations with the Haskala were. The study of Ibn Ezra's writings was not particularly common among non-haskalic, Haredi Jews of nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, for Ibn Ezra's commentary focuses on Hebrew grammar, and, to a lesser extent, the sciences. Thus, it would be reasonable to suspect that Krinsky adhered to some form of the Haskala. The haskama (letter of approbation) of Rabbi Eliezer Rabbinowitz, prefixed to the Genesis volume of Meḥōqeqē Yehudā, refers to Krinsky as "God-fearing", an epithet that makes it clear that Krinsky was observant of Jewish law. This would place him firmly in the religious branch of the Haskala, rather than its secular branch. This is clear also from other evidence, such as Krinsky's choice to publish Meḥōqeqē Yehudā in the form of a traditional Pentateuch for liturgical use in the synagogue. The haskamoth that Krinsky managed to obtain for his volume on Exodus were indeed written by key figures of the religious Haskala, including Abraham Berliner, A. E. Harkavy, and S. A. Poznanski, among others. There are also haskamoth from major Haredi leaders such as R' Isser Zalman Meltzer who praises Krinsky for his attention to "Dikduk HaLashon" (grammar) implying that the Haredi world was quite comfortable with his work. Criticism of Krinsky by others The work Meḥōqeqē Yehudā has not been received well. The traditional world seems to have ignored it altogether, whereas the critical world has given it