Baruch, Ben-isaac

Baruch, Ben-Isaac, a Jewish writer, who died at Constantinople in 1664, is the author of זרִע בֵּרִך, i.e. a Haggadic and homiletical commentary on the Pentateuch and the five Megilloth — i.e. the Psalms, Proverba, Lamentations, Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes published at Cracow, 1646 a. o. See Furst, Bibl. Jud. i, 90; Jocher, Allgenmeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Benjacob, Ozar Ha-Sepharim, or Thesaurus Librorum Hebraicorum'(Wilna, 1880), i, 162, No. 274-276. (B. P.)