| Zebi Hirsch Scherschewski | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1840 (1840) Pinsk |
| Died | 1909 (aged 68–69) |
| Pen name | יעבץ ישוע שר עסק |
| Language | Hebrew, Yiddish |
| Literary movement | Haskalah |
Zebi Hirsch ha-Kohen Scherschewski (Yiddish: צבי הירש הכהן שערשעווסקי, romanized: Tsvi Hirsh ha-Kohen Shershevski; 1840–1909) was a Russian Hebrew writer.
Biography
Scherschewski was born at Pinsk in 1840. While still a boy he studied Hebrew grammar and archaeology without a teacher. After serving as secretary of the Jewish community of Pinsk, he went to the Crimea, where, at Melitopol, he entered the service of a merchant named Seidener. Later he became assistant editor of Aleksander Zederbaum's Ha-Melitz. During the Russo-Turkish war he followed the Russian army as a sutler; and after a second short stay with his former employer, Seidener, he settled in 1883 at Rostov-on-the-Don, where he opened a bookstore.
In addition to numerous contributions to current Hebrew journals, Scherschewski wrote Boser Avot (Odessa, 1877), a satirical poem on the neglect of the education of Jewish children in Russia, and Iyyun Sifrut (Vilna, 1881), on the development of Jewish literature and its significance as a cultural element for raising the Jews to a higher moral standing. His notes to the Midrash Shoḥer Tov are printed in Padua's Warsaw edition of that midrash, and his rhymed parodies are to be found in Keneset Yisrael [he].
Partial bibliography
- Boser Avot. Odessa: L. Nitsche. 1877.
- Iyyun Sifrut. Vilna: Yehuda Leib Matz. 1881.
- "Ben-Mishle". Keneset Yisrael. 1: 401–408.
- "Ben-Mishle". Keneset Yisrael. 2: 2–6.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Seligsohn, M. (1905). "Scherschewski, Ẓebi Hirsch ha-Kohen". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 95.
- ^ Katznelson, J. L., ed. (1913). "Шершевский, Цеви-Гирш" [Shershevsky, Tsevi-Hirsch]. Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (in Russian). Vol. 16. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus & Efron. pp. 16–17.
- ^ Sokolow, Naḥum (1889). Sefer zikaron le-sofrei Israel ha-ḥayim itanu ka-yom [Memoir Book of Contemporary Jewish Writers] (in Hebrew). Warsaw. pp. 114–115.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Zeitlin, William (1890). "Scherschewsky, Hirsch". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. p. 341.
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