Zebi Hirsch Scherschewski

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.[3]

• 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.

 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.