Nathan ben Yehiel

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Nathan ben Yehiel

Italian scholar

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Hebrew literature
The Palestinian tradition in Europe, 800–1300
Nathan ben Yehiel completed in 1101 at Rome a dictionary of Talmudic Aramaic and Hebrew, the ʿArukh, which is still used.
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Nathan ben Yehiel completed in 1101 at Rome a dictionary of Talmudic Aramaic and Hebrew, the ʿArukh, which is still used.
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Alexander Kohut
…and Aramaic dictionary compiled by Nathan ben Yehiel, a medieval Italian Hebrew lexicographer. Kohut worked on his magnum opus for some 25 years. During this period, he emigrated to the United States (1885), where he became rabbi of a congregation in New York. In 1886, with Rabbi Sabato Morais, he…
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…and Aramaic dictionary compiled by Nathan ben Yehiel, a medieval Italian Hebrew lexicographer. Kohut worked on his magnum opus for some 25 years. During this period, he emigrated to the United States (1885), where he became rabbi of a congregation in New York. In 1886, with Rabbi Sabato Morais, he…
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