Judah Aryeh ben Zvi Hirsch

Judah was born in Krotoschin, and lived at Avignon and Carpentras.^[1] He was the author of Ohole Yehudah, a Hebrew dictionary, in which special attention is paid to proper names and their etymology, and Geza' Yehudah, a short concordance. In his introduction to the former work he mentions two other works of his: Pene Aryeh and Ḥeleḳ Yehudah, both on the Pentateuch. The grammatical essay which preceded the Ḥeleḳ Yehudah was published with a German translation under the title Yesod leshon ha-ḳodesh.^[2] A Hebrew manuscript in the Bodleian Library contains a grammatical poem, beginning, and a commentary by Judah, to which are added the paradigms of the verbs, with a Hebrew-German translation, and some grammatical rules.^[3]

• Ohole Yehudah (in Hebrew). Jessnitz: Yisrael Avraham. 1719.
• Geza' Yehudah (in Hebrew). Offenbach. 1732.
• Yesod leshon ha-ḳodesh (in Hebrew). Wilmersdorf: Hirsh ben Ḥayim mi-Fiyorda. 1724.