Jacob ben Jeremiah Mattithiah ha-Levi (; ) was a German translator.
He rendered Abraham Jagel's Leḳaḥ Ṭov into Yiddish (Amsterdam, 1675; Wilmersdorf, 1714; Jesnitz, 1719), as well as the Sefer ha-Yashar, under the title Tam ve-Yashar (Frankfurt, 1674). The latter work encompasses Biblical history from the era of Adam to the period of the Judges, with aggadic elaboration. Each paragraph was followed by a concise summary of the content and the moral implications of the respective narrative. Early editions also contained extracts from Abraham Zacuto's Sefer Yuḥasin and from Eleazar Askari's Sefer Ḥaredim.
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