Jekuthiel Blitz
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Jekuthiel ben Isaac Blitz (fl.
Floruit
Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...

 1670s ) was a rabbi in Wittmund
Wittmund
Wittmund is a town and capital of the district of Wittmund, in Lower Saxony, Germany.-Geography:Wittmund is a town of 21,000 inhabitants located in Germany's historic coastal district of East Frisia, between the towns of Aurich and Jever...

, Germany, who was a translator of the Hebrew Bible into Yiddish. He was commissioned by Amsterdam printer Uri Fayvesh to make a translation which Fayvesh finished printing in late 1678.
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