ḤAYYIM (JOSHUA), PHEIBEL BEN ISRAEL, OF TARNIGROD:

Geographer of the eighteenth century. He wrote a geography of Palestine, in Hebrew, entitled "Ḳaẓwe Areẓ" (Zolkiev, 1772). In the second edition (Grodno, 1818) it bore the title "Ereẓ Yisrael li-Gebuloteha Sabib."

Bibliography:
  • Steinschneider, Jewish Literature, p. 421;
  • Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 531.
J. M. Sc.
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