Meir ben Samuel of Shcherbreshin (Yiddish: מאיר בן שמואל משעברעשין) was a 17th-century paytan and chronicler.
In the years of taḥ ve-tat (1648–49) he lived at Shcherbreshin, Poland, an honored member of the community, from where he escaped, on its invasion by the Cossacks, to Krakow. There he published his Tzok ha-Ittim (1650), an eyewitness account, in Hebrew verse, of Jewish persecution during the Cossack uprising. This book was afterward published by Joshua ben David of Lemberg under his own name; Moritz Steinschneider was the first to discover this plagiarism.
Meir wrote also Mizmor Shir le-Yom ha-Shabbat, a Sabbath hymn in Aramaic and Yiddish (Venice, 1639; Amsterdam, 1654).
Publications
- Mizmor Shir le-Yom ha-Shabbat [Psalm for the Sabbath]. Venice: Giovanni Vendramin. 1639.
- Tzok ha-Ittim [Sufferings of the Times]. Krakow. 1650.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Waldstein, A. S. (1904). "Meïr b. Samuel of Sczebrszyn". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 440.
- Halpern, Israel (2007). "Meir ben Samuel of Shcherbreshin". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- Heller, Marvin J. (2007). Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book. Brill. p. 17. ISBN 978-90-474-2392-8.
- Heller, Marvin J. (Spring 2018). "Adversity and Authorship: As Revealed in the Introductions of Early Hebrew Books" (PDF). Ḥakirah: The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought. 24: 59–74.
- Weinryb, Bernard D. (June 1977). "The Hebrew Chronicles on Bohdan Khmel'nyts'kyi and the Cossack-Polish War". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 1 (2): 164. JSTOR 40999943.
- Heller, Marvin J. (2011). The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book: An Abridged Thesaurus. Brill. pp. 556–557. ISBN 978-90-04-18638-5.
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