ALKALAI, MOSES BEN DAVID:
Judæo-Spanish translator, and writer of Hebrew textbooks; lived in Turkey in the nineteenth century. With his father David, he translated Solomon ibn Verga's "Shebeṭ Yehudah" from Hebrew into Judæo-Spanish (Belgrade, 1859). He also wrote: (1) (Belgrade, 1859), treating of laws concerning meals; (2) a Hebrew grammar (Bucharest, 1860); (3) (Belgrade, 1867), a treatise on arithmetic.
Bibliography:
- Kayserling, Biblioteca Española-Portugueza Judáica, p. 10.