Judah Löb Minden

For the ḥazzan and poet, see Löb ben Moses Minden.

Judah Löb ben Joel Minden (Hebrew: יהודא ליב בן יואל‏ מינדן, romanized: Yehuda Leyb ben Yo'el Minden) was an 18th-century German Jewish lexicographer.

In 1760, with the approval of the rabbinates of Berlin and Halberstadt, he published Millim le-eloah, the first Hebrew-German dictionary produced by a Jew. Inspired by David Kimḥi's Sefer ha-shorashim,[1][2] the work also contained discussions of the grammatical functions of the letters.[3] In 1765 Minden published a new edition of Benjamin Musaphia's Zekher rav as a supplement to his own work.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Toy, Crawford Howell; Bacher, Wilhelm (1904). "Minden, Judah (Löb) b. Joel". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 595.

  1. ^ Zwiep, Irene E. (2003). "Imagined Speech Communities: Western Ashkenazi Multilingualism as Reflected in Eighteenth-Century Grammars of Hebrew". In Berger, Shlomo; Pomerance, Aubrey; Schatz, Andrea; Schrijver, Emile (eds.). Speaking Jewish – Jewish Speak: Multilingualism in Western Ashkenazic Culture. Studia Rosenthaliana. Vol. 36. Leuven: Peeters. p. 80. ISBN 978-90-429-1429-2. JSTOR 41482644.
  2. ^ Steinschneider, Moritz (1852–60). Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (in Latin). Berlin: A. Friedlaender. p. 1344.
  3. ^ Minden, Judah Löb (1760). Sefer le-eloah (in Hebrew). Berlin.


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