Jekuthiel Blitz

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Jekuthiel ben Isaac Blitz (fl. 1670s ) was a rabbi in Wittmund, Germany, who was a translator of the Hebrew Bible into Yiddish.^[1] He was commissioned by Amsterdam printer Uri Fayvesh to make a translation which Fayvesh finished printing in late 1678.^[2]

References

↑ Rosenthaliana: Two Yiddish Bibles printed in Amsterdam
↑ 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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