KITZINGER, JACOB BEN JOSEPH:
Author and poet; lived in the second half of the sixteenth and at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He wrote "Ḥag ha-Pesaḥ" (Cracow, 1597), a commentary on the Passover Haggadah, with glosses by his father, a poem on the Passover ritual, and a long introduction. Thereto is added "Ḳeẓ ha-Pela'ot," on the end of the Exile and the coming of the Messiah.
Bibliography:
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. ii. 190-191;
- Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 169.
