Samson Rausuk
{{Short description|Lithuanian-British librarian and Talmudic scholar}}
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Samson H. Rausuk ({{Langx|he|שמשון ראוזוק|translit=Šimšon Rauzuq}}; 1793 – 11 September 1877) was a Lithuanian-British librarian, Hebraist, Talmudic scholar, and poet. He was regarded as the 'poet laureate' of the London Jewish community for nearly thirty years.{{r|JE}}
Biography
Rausuk was born in Vilkovishk, Lithuania, where he received a traditional Litvak yeshiva education, and pursued a career as a merchant.{{r|palgrave}} On the occasion of the visit of Sir Moses Montefiore to Russia in 1846, Rausuk was one of the delegates appointed to receive him. He moved to London in 1848, and held the post of librarian to the Leadenhall Street Beth Hamedrash for nearly a quarter of a century.{{r|lippe}}
During this time, he published many of his Hebrew compositions, often dealing with subjects of passing interest to the local community, and contributed to the Jewish Chronicle.{{r|palgrave}}{{r|menorah_1889}} Among Rausuk's poems were odes to Montefiore in commemoration of his missions to Romania and Morocco.{{r|maggs}}{{r|goodman}} He also contributed to a volume of translations of Martin Farquhar Tupper's A Hymn for All Nations, other contributors to which included William Hodge Mill, Thomas Robinson, W. Burckhardt Barker, Benjamin Hall Kennedy, Richard Shilleto, Rowland Williams, W. Gifford Cookesley, Morris Williams, John O'Donovan, Thomas McLauchlan, George Métivier, Gabriele Rossetti, and Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh.{{r|tupper}}
Publications
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- {{cite book|title=Purim|trans-title=A Poem|publisher=s.n.|date=1849|language=he|location=London}}
- {{cite book|title=Kina al Mavet ha-Ḥakham M. Meir Yosef|trans-title=Elegy on the Death of M. Meir Yosef|publisher=s.n.|date=1849|language=he|location=London}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir|trans-title=A Poem, Dedicated to Master Alfred Cohen, &c.|publisher=s.n.|date=1849|language=he|location=London}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir|trans-title=A Poem, Dedicated to Master Mordecai Adler, &c.|publisher=s.n.|date=1850|language=he|location=London}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir Yedidut|trans-title=A Poem, Composed in Honour of the Marriage of Henry Solomon, Esq. and Miss Sarah Adler, &c.|publisher=s.n.|date=1850|language=he|location=London}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir Yedidut|trans-title=A Poem, in Honour of the Nuptials of J. Sebag, Esq., and Miss Adelaide Cohen|publisher=s.n.|date=1851|language=he, en|location=London}}
- {{cite book|title=Tefilah le-Moshe|trans-title=A Hymn, in Honour of Master Moses Moses, on His Attaining the Age of 13, on the 8th of April, 5611 A.M.|publisher=s.n.|date=1851|location=London|language=he}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir Tehilah|trans-title=A Poem, in Honour of Master Naphtali Hirsch Adler, on His Attaining the Age of 13, on the 4th of June, 5612 A.M.|publisher=s.n.|date=1852|location=London|url=https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/winners-auctions/cloned-images/28801/003/003.jpg|language=he}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir Yedidut|trans-title=A Poem, Composed in Honour of the Nuptials of A. H. Moses, and H. Cohen|publisher=s.n.|date=1855|language=he|location=London}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir Yedidut|trans-title=A Poem, Composed in Honour of the Nuptials of L. L. Cohen, Esq.|publisher=s.n.|date=1856|language=he|location=London}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir Yedidut|trans-title=A Poem, Composed in Honour of the Nuptials of H. D. Behrend, M.D., &c. and Miss Priscilla Moses. On Wednesday, March 4, 5617.|publisher=s.n.|date=1857|url=https://digitalcollections.jtsa.edu/islandora/object/jts:3585#page/1/mode/1up|language=he|location=London}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir Tehilah|trans-title=A Poem, in Honour of Master A. Keyser, &c.|publisher=s.n.|date=1857|language=he|location=London}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir|trans-title=A Poem, in Honour of Masters B. and J. L. Cohen, &c.|publisher=s.n.|date=1858|language=he|location=London}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir Yedidut|trans-title=A Poem Composed in Honour of the Nuptials of J. Israel, Esq. and M. Adler|publisher=s.n.|date=1858|language=he|location=London}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir Tehilah|trans-title=Poem, Commemorative of the Successful Mission of Sir Moses Montefiore, Bart. to the Court of Morocco: Composed on His Safe Return, April 7th, 5624–1864|date=1864|location=London|publisher=P. Vallentine|language=he, en|translator-first=Sampson|translator-last=Samuel}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir|trans-title=A Poem in Honour of Master A. M. Sebag, &c.|publisher=s.n.|date=1866|language=he|location=London}}
- {{cite book|title=Kol Rina ve-Yeshua|trans-title=The Voice of Joy and Salvation: An Ode to Commemorate the Providential Success, which Attended Israel's Illustrious Champion, Sir Moses Montefoire on the Occasion of his Mission to Roumania|location=London|publisher=P. Vallentine|date=1867|language=he, en|translator-first=Michael|translator-last=Henry}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir Yedidut|trans-title=A Poem Composed in Honour of the Marriage of B. Cohen and L. Merton|publisher=s.n.|date=1870|language=he|location=London}}
- {{cite book|title=Shir Yedidut|trans-title=A Poem Composed in Honour of the Marriage of N. Cohen and J. M. Waley|publisher=s.n.|date=1873|language=he|location=London}}
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References
- {{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Rausuk, Samson|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12597|first1=Joseph|last1=Jacobs|author1-link=Joseph Jacobs|first2=Goodman|last2=Lipkind|author2-link=Goodman Lipkind|volume=10|page=333}}
- {{cite book|first=Meijer|last=Roest|author-link=Meyer Roest|title=Catalog der Hebraica und Judaica aus der L. Rosenthal'schen Bibliothek|volume=2|language=de|location=Amsterdam|year=1875|publisher=s.n.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h2VoAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP265|page=954}}
- {{cite book|first1=Joseph|last1=Jacobs|author1-link=Joseph Jacobs|first2=Lucien|last2=Wolf|author2-link=Lucien Wolf|title=Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica: A Bibliographical Guide to Anglo-Jewish History|location=London|publisher=Office of the {{em|Jewish Chronicle}}|year=1888|series=Publications of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition|volume=3|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029595778/page/n253/mode/2up|pages=220–223}}
- {{cite book|last=Zeitlin|first=William|author-link=William Zeitlin|title=Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana|volume=1|location=Leipzig|publisher=K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium|year=1891|language=de|pages=294–295|url=https://archive.org/details/kiryatseferbibl01zeitgoog/page/n305/mode/2up}}
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{{cite encyclopedia|script-title=ru:Раусук, Симсон|trans-title=Rausuk, Samson|language=ru|encyclopedia=Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary|url=https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/ЕЭБЕ/Раусук,_Симсон|volume=13|page=329|date=1906–1913|location=St. Petersburg}}
{{cite book|first=Paul|last=Goodman|author-link=Paul Goodman (Zionist)|title=Moses Montefiore|url=https://archive.org/details/mosesmontefiore00good/page/235/mode/2up|page=235|location=Philadelphia|publisher=Jewish Publication Society of America|date=1925}}
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