Judah Aryeh ben Zvi Hirsch

Judah Aryeh Loeb ben Zvi Hirsch of Carpentras (Hebrew: יהודה אריה לייב בן צבי הירש מקארפינטראץ, romanized: Yehuda Aryeh Leib ben Tsevi Hirsh mi-Karpintrats; fl. early 18th century) was a French Hebraist.

Biography

Judah was born in Krotoschin, and lived at Avignon and Carpentras.^[1] He was the author of Ohole Yehudah, a Hebrew dictionary, in which special attention is paid to proper names and their etymology, and Geza' Yehudah, a short concordance. In his introduction to the former work he mentions two other works of his: Pene Aryeh and Ḥeleḳ Yehudah, both on the Pentateuch. The grammatical essay which preceded the Ḥeleḳ Yehudah was published with a German translation under the title Yesod leshon ha-ḳodesh.^[2] A Hebrew manuscript in the Bodleian Library contains a grammatical poem, beginning, and a commentary by Judah, to which are added the paradigms of the verbs, with a Hebrew-German translation, and some grammatical rules.^[3]

Publications

• Ohole Yehudah (in Hebrew). Jessnitz: Yisrael Avraham. 1719.
• Geza' Yehudah (in Hebrew). Offenbach. 1732.
• Yesod leshon ha-ḳodesh (in Hebrew). Wilmersdorf: Hirsh ben Ḥayim mi-Fiyorda. 1724.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Toy, Crawford Howell; Seligsohn, M. (1904). "Judah Aryeh ben Ẓebi Hirsch". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 339–340.

1. Gross, Henri (1897). Gallia judaica: dictionnaire géographique de la France d'après les sources rabbiniques (in French). Translated by Bloch, Moïse. Paris: Librairie Léopold Cerf. pp. 612–613.
2. Steinschneider, Moritz (1852–60). "Jehuda (Arje Loeb) b. Zebi Hirsch". Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (in Latin). Berlin: A. Friedlaender. p. 1378.
3. Neubauer, Adolf (1886). Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 802.