Guido Bedarida (also known as Eleizer Ben David, 1900–1962) was an Italian Jewish writer.
[1] Bedarida was born in Ancona, the third of four children in a Sephardic Jewish family.
He attended high school for 2 years and moved with his family to Livorno at 15, where he developed an interest in the local language, Judeo Livornese.
He majored in history and authored several essays between 1924 and 1935 under the pseudonym Eliezer Ben David.
Throughout his life he embraced Zionism, Hebrew revival and Jewish cultural awareness.