JEDIDIAH (GOTTLIEB) BEN ABRAHAM ISRAEL:
Galician preacher and Masorite; lived at Lemberg in the seventeenth century. He wrote: "Ahabat ha-Shem," fifty haggadic expositions on Deut. x. 12 (Cracow, 1641; Lublin, 1645); "Shir Yedidut," commentary on the Masorah, in four parts and in alphabetical order (ib. 1644).
Bibliography:
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 340;
- Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, No. 943;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1288.
