Jedidiah (Gottlieb) Ben Abraham Israel

Galician preacher and Masorite; lived at Lemberg in the seventeenth century. He wrote: "Ahabat ha-Shem," fifty haggadic expositions on Deut. x. 12 (Cracow, 1641; Lublin, 1645); "Shir Yedidut," commentary on the Masorah, in four parts and in alphabetical order (ib. 1644).

Bibliography:

  * Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 340;
  * Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, No. 943;
  * Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1288.



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