Zebi Hirsch Scherschewski

Zebi Hirsch Scherschewski
Born1840 (1840)
Pinsk
Died1909 (aged 68–69)
Pen nameיעבץ ישוע שר עסק[1]
LanguageHebrew, Yiddish
Literary movementHaskalah

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.[2] 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.[2]

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.[3][1] 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].[3]

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.

  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ a b 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)
  3. ^ a b Zeitlin, William (1890). "Scherschewsky, Hirsch". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. p. 341.


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