Meir ben Samuel of Shcherbreshin
Meir ben Samuel of Shcherbreshin was a 17th-century paytan and chronicler.
In the years of taḥ ve-tat he lived at Shcherbreshin, Poland, 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, 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; Moritz Steinschneider was the first to discover this plagiarism.
Meir wrote also Mizmor Shir le-Yom ha-Shabbat, a Sabbath hymn in Aramaic and Yiddish.