Zebi Hirsch Scherschewski

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Zebi Hirsch ha-Kohen Scherschewski ({{Langx|yi|צבי הירש הכהן שערשעווסקי|translit=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.{{r|sokolow}} 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.{{r|sokolow}}

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.{{r|zeitlin}}{{r|brockhaus}} 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 {{ill|Keneset Yisrael|he|כנסת ישראל (ספר שנה)}}.{{r|zeitlin}}

Partial bibliography

{{cite book|title=Boser Avot|location=Odessa|date=1877|url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH990020692860205171/NLI|publisher=L. Nitsche}}
{{cite book|title=Iyyun Sifrut|location=Vilna|date=1881|url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH002069287/NLI|publisher=Yehuda Leib Matz}}
{{cite journal|title=Ben-Mishle|journal=Keneset Yisrael|volume=1|pages=401–408}}
{{cite journal|title=Ben-Mishle|journal=Keneset Yisrael|volume=2|pages=2–6}}

References

{{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Scherschewski, Ẓebi Hirsch ha-Kohen|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13260|first1=Isidore|last1=Singer|author1-link=Isidore Singer|first2=M.|last2=Seligsohn|author2-link=Max Seligsohn|volume=11|page=95}}

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{{cite book|last=Sokolow|first=Naḥum|author-link=Nahum Sokolow|title=Sefer zikaron le-sofrei Israel ha-ḥayim itanu ka-yom|trans-title=Memoir Book of Contemporary Jewish Writers|date=1889|location=Warsaw|language=he|pages=114–115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D0k8AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA114}}

{{cite encyclopedia|title=Scherschewsky, Hirsch|last=Zeitlin|first=William|author-link=William Zeitlin|encyclopedia=Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana|location=Leipzig|publisher=K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium|year=1890|language=de|page=341|url=https://archive.org/details/kiryatseferbibl00zeitgoog/page/n333/mode/2up}}

{{cite JEBE|wstitle=Шершевский, Цеви-Гирш|trans-title=Shershevsky, Tsevi-Hirsch|volume=16|pages=16–17}}

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Category:Hebrew-language writers

Category:1840 births

Category:1909 deaths

Category:Jews from the Russian Empire

Category:Writers from the Russian Empire

Category:People of the Haskalah