Jekuthiel Blitz

Jekuthiel ben Isaac Blitz (b. Wittmund, Germany, fl. 1670s) was a rabbi who made the first whole translation of the Hebrew Bible into Yiddish.[1]

He was commissioned by Amsterdam printer Uri Phoebus Halevi to make a translation which was finished printing in late 1678.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Rosenthaliana: Two Yiddish Bibles printed in Amsterdam
  2. ↑ Introduction to Old Yiddish literature p 124 Jean Baumgarten, Jerold C. Frakes - 2005 "Jekuthiel Blitz went so far as to praise the more accessible Christian translations, in comparison to which the Yiddish translations were inarticulate."
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