DLUGOSZ (: not De Lantes), SAMUEL B. MOSES:

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Biblical commentator and poet of the seventeenth century; born in Grodno, Lithuania. He edited the Prophets and the Hagiographa in the Judæo-German translation of the Bible, "Ha-Maggid," to which he added a commentary on the Book of Judges entitled "Aguddat Shemuel" (Amsterdam, 1699; Wandsbeck, 1737). He was also a liturgical poet; to his translation of the Bible (1699) he added an Aramaic seliḥah in rime, and two dirges, which were reprinted entire in the "Tiḳḳun Shobabim" (Mantua, 1732) and elsewhere.

Bibliography:
  • Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 129;
  • Catalog der Rosenthalschen Bibliothek, p. 1027;
  • Zunz, Literaturgesch. p. 443.
G. M. K.
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