Talk:Elia Levita

Yiddish-Hebrew dictionary
Recent uncited addition to works: "Shemot Davarim, first known Yiddish-Hebrew dictionary". Since that would seem like something quite important, and I cannot find even one other online reference, I am bringing this over here pending citation. Perhaps it is just oddly spelled? - Jmabel | Talk 03:23, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I just added an image from Yiddish-Hebrew-Latin-German dictionary. Could be it. ←Humus sapiens ну? 09:56, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

The Italian Bovo d'Antona
The Italian Bovo d'Antona is not based on the English version. The quotation from Liptzin should be taken away. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.127.91.79 (talk) 20:11, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Year of birth
According to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Elias Levita he was born in 1469; while according to the Jewish Encyclopedia  and Joshua Trachtenberg (Jewish Magic and Superstition, pg. 318) he was born in 1468. -- -- -- 22:15, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * And the Encyclopaedia Judaica says "1468 or 1469" for his year of birth. The main article here has a "Citation Needed" tag on the date given (1469), so I'd suggest that we add the three sources there, explaining that it could be one or the other? Thank you, warshy (¥¥)  22:34, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Feel free to do so. (I would do it myself but I'm not sure exactly how). -- -- -- 19:41, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I will give it a try shortly, and then we can see if it resolves the issue and/or improves the article or not. Thank you, warshy (¥¥) 20:17, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

By studying the three sources we are discussing, I just discovered that the precise dates for his birth and death that are given in the WP article are not there in any of the three sources... The JE also gives his death as Dec. 1549, not January as in the article here. I will need some more time to find out who put these dates here, and where he may have gotten them... Thank you, warshy (¥¥) 23:17, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
 * For future reference, I've found out that the dates for Levita's birth and death given in the article, and which are unknown to all English encyclopedias on the subject, were introduced by this 2007 diff, made by a user of the German WP. The details introduced by the diff are all unsourced, but they seem to come from the German WP article on the subject, which uses a variety of German reliable sources. warshy (¥¥) 23:28, 22 October 2022 (UTC)