Jacob Ben-isaac

Jacob Ben-Isaac of Prague, who died about 1628, is the author of צאינה וראינה, or a Judeo-German midrash on the Pentateuch, the five Megilloth and Haftaras (Amsterdam, 1648, and often; partly translated into Latin by Saubert, Helmstadt, 1660; Engl. transl. by Hershon, Lond. 1865); a modern imitation is the La Semaine Israelite, by B. Crehange (Paris, 1847), See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 2:19 sq. (B.P.)