Judah Even Shemuel

Yehuda Even Shemuel
Yehuda Even Shemuel
Born	1886 (1886) Balta,  Ukraine
Died	1976 (aged 89–90) Jerusalem, Israel
Occupation	Scholar, translator, lexicographer
Nationality	Israel
Notable works	The Kaufman Dictionary
Notable awards	Israel Prize (1973)

Yehuda Even Shemuel (Ukraine, 1886-Jerusalem, 1976) was an Israeli Jewish scholar, translator and lexicographer. He won the Israel Prize in 1973.

Yehuda Kaufman (later Even Shemuel) was born in Balta, Ukraine. He studied in three yeshivot. At the age of eighteen, after passing the examination of a six-years’ course in a Russian gymnasium, he studied in London and then Paris, where he was accepted to the law school of the University of Paris. He immigrated to Montreal, Canada in 1913.^[1]

His English-Hebrew dictionary was known as The Kaufman Dictionary.^[2]

After the birth of his son Shmuel, he adopted the name Even Shmuel (Ibn Samuel), after his father, and following his death, on the day of his discharge from the Palmach on May 2, 1947, he officially changed his name.^[3]

References

1. Ira Robinson, The Canadian Years of Yehuda Kaufman (Even Shmuel): Educator, journalist and intellectual
2. Brisman, Shimeon. A history and guide to Judaic dictionaries and concordances, Volume 3, Part 1, p. 94-96.
3. THE CANADIAN YEARS OF YEHUDA KAUFMAN (EVEN SHMUEL): EDUCATOR, JOURNALIST, AND INTELLECTUAL