# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/menahem-ben-saruq
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:37:28.768Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/menahem-ben-saruq"
name: "Menahem ben Saruq"
slug: "menahem-ben-saruq"
description: "Menahem ben Saruq was a Spanish-Jewish philologist of the tenth century CE. He was a skilled poet and polyglot. He was born in Tortosa around 920 and died around 970 in Cordoba. Menahem produced an early dictionary of the Hebrew language. For a time he was the assistant of the great Jewish statesman Hasdai ibn Shaprut, and was involved in both literary and diplomatic matters; his dispute with Dunash ben Labrat, however, led to his downfall."
tagline: "Spanish-Jewish philologist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "920"
deathDate: "970"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.878474666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menahem_ben_Saruk"
    title: "Menahem ben Saruk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menahem_ben_Saruq"
    title: "Menahem ben Saruq"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_ben_Saruq"
    title: "Menachem ben Saruq"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menahem_ben_Saruq"
    title: "Menahem ben Saruq"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menahem_ben_Saruq"
    title: "Menahem ben Saruq"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menahem_ben_Sarouk"
    title: "Menahem ben Sarouk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%97%D7%9D_%D7%91%D7%9F_%D7%A1%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A7"
    title: "מנחם בן סרוק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%C3%A1hem_ben_Szaruk"
    title: "Menáhem ben Szaruk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mena%C3%A9m_bem_Saruque"
    title: "Menaém bem Saruque"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1370661"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump