Ẓebi Hirsch Ben Isaac Jacob

Shoḥeṭ at Cracow in the sixteenth century; a pupil of Moses Isserles. He was the author of "Haggahot le-Sefer Sheḥiṭah u-Bediḳah" (Cracow, 1631; n. p. 1723; Amsterdam, 1745; Zolkiev, 1793), annotations appended to Jacob Weil's work on the laws governing the slaughtering of animals and the examination of the lungs.

Bibliography:

  * Nepi-Ghirondi, Toledot Gedole Yisrael, p. 298;
  * Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 396;
  * Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 2753.



J. I. Br.