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a Jewish writer of Rome, was born in 1630, and died at Ferrara in 1693. Besides a large medical work), אוצר החיים, he left, in MS., a commentary on Isaiah, entitled יעקב ס ישועות : — a commentary on Ecclesiastes, קהלת יעקב : disquisitions on Daniel, על דניאל דרושים :— homiletical expositions on the Pentateuch, ליעקב תתן אמת : — a commentary on the Song of Songs, ירנה צהלה, etc. See Fiirst, Bibl. Jud. 3:541, Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; De' Rossi, Dizionario Storico Degli Autori Ebrei (Germ. transl.), page 332. (B.P.)