Meir, of Norwich, active 13th century

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Name (Hebrew)
מאיר בן אליהו, מנורגיצה
Name (Latin)
Meir, of Norwich, active 13th century
Other forms of name
Meir B. Elijah, of Norwich, active 13th century
Meir ben Elijah, of Norwich, fl. 1260
Meir ben Elia, aus Norwich, active 13th century
Meir ben Eliahu, of Norwich, active 13th century
Me'ir ben Eliyahu, mi-Norgitsa be-Ingletera, active 13th century
Me'îr ben Eliyyahû, de Norwich, active 13th century
Meir ben Elijah, of Norwich, active 13th century
מאיר בן אליהו, מנורביץ'
Place of residence/headquarters
Norwich (England)
Field of activity
Jewish poetry Hebrew poetry, Medieval
Associated Language
heb
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 305367614
Wikidata: Q113006290
Library of congress: no2013103260
Sources of Information
  • Meir of Norwich. Into the light, 2013:title page (Meir of Norwich) p. 15 (Meir ben Eliahu) p. 9 ("I am Meir, son of rabbi Eliahu, from the city of Norgitz, which is in the land of isles called Angleterre") p. 10 (must have lived in the latter part of the thirteenth century)
  • OCLC database, September 19, 2013(hdgs: Meir ben Elijah, of Norwich, fl. 1260; Meir ben Elijah, of Norwich; Meir of Norwich) (usage: Meir ben Elia aus Norwich, Me'ir ben Eliyahu mi-Norgitsa be-Ingletera; Me'îr ben Eliyyahû de Norwich, Meir B. Elijah of Norwich)
Wikipedia description:

Meir ben Elijah of Norwich (Hebrew: מאיר בן אליהו מנורגיץ, romanized: Meïr ben Eliyahu mi-Norgits; fl. 13th century), also known as Meir of England, was a mediaeval English Jewish poet. He is acknowledged as the "chief representative of the poetic art among the Jews of medieval England." Little is known of his life, but some scholars have speculated that he was among the Jews expelled from England in 1290. It is possible that Meir was a son of Elias Levesque. One long elegiac poem and fifteen smaller ones by him are found in a Vatican manuscript, from which they were published by Abraham Berliner in 1887. Among them is the liturgical poem Oyevi bim’eirah tikkov ('Put a Curse on My Enemy'), decrying the persecution suffered by English Jews. His work shows the influence of both Ashkenazic and Sephardic piyyutim.

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