Benzion Judah Berkowitz

Benzion Judah ben Eliahu Berkowitz (Yiddish: בן־ציון יהודה בן אליהו בערקאָוויץ, romanized: Ben-Tsiyon Yehuda ben Eliyahu Berkovits; 23 July 1803 – 11 May 1879) was a Russian Hebrew scholar, who published a number of works devoted to the study of the Targum Onkelos. His contributions to the area were acknowledged by such scholars as Berliner and other specialists on the Targum.^[2] He also contributed to the Hebrew periodicals Pirḥe Tzafon, Ha-Karmel, Otzar Ḥokhmah, and Ha-Maggid.^[1]

Benzion Judah Berkowitz
Born	(1803-07-23)23 July 1803
Died	11 May 1879(1879-05-11) (aged 75) Vilna, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire
Literary movement	Haskalah[1]

Publications

• Oteh or. Vilna: Menaḥem Mann Romm. 1843.
• Leḥem ve-simlah. Vol. 1–2. Vilna: Yosef Reuven Romm. 1850–1855.
• Ḥalifot semalot. Vilna: Yehuda Leib Lipman. 1874.
• Avne tsiyon. Vilna: Ha-almana veha-aḥim Romm. 1877. Addenda to Nathan Adler's Netinah la-ger.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ginzberg, Louis; Rosenthal, Herman (1902). "Berkowitz, Benzion Judah ben Eliahu". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 69.

1. Fuenn, Shmuel Yosef (1886). Knesset Yisrael: zikhronot le-toldot gedole Yisrael ha-nodaʻim la-shem be-toratam, be-ḥokhmatam, uve-maʻasehem [The Assembly of Israel: A Biographical Lexicon of the Great Persons of Israel Known for their Scholarship, Wisdom, and Deeds] (in Hebrew). Warsaw: Boymriter & Gonshor. p. 174.
2. Berliner, A. (1884). Targum Onkelos (in German and Hebrew). Vol. 2. Berlin: Gorzelanczyk & Co. p. 197.