Ḥayyim (Joshua), Pheibel Ben Israel, Of Tarnigrod

Geographer of the eighteenth century. He wrote a geography of Palestine, in Hebrew, entitled "Ḳaẓwe Areẓ" (Zolkiev, 1772). In the second edition (Grodno, 1818) it bore the title "Ereẓ Yisrael li-Gebuloteha Sabib."

Bibliography:

  * Steinschneider, Jewish Literature, p. 421;
  * Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 531.



J. M. Sc.