Meir ben Samuel of Shcherbreshin () was a 17th-century '' paytan'' and

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r. In the years of '' taḥ ve-tat'' (1648–49) he lived at Shcherbreshin,

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, 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;

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was the first to discover this plagiarism. Meir wrote also ''Mizmor Shir le-Yom ha-Shabbat'', a

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hymn in

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, 1639;

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, 1654).

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