ספר גזירות ת"ח ות"ט

Presents four contemporary works on the Chmielnicki pogroms of 1648-49. Nathan Nata Hannover's "Yeven metzulah" (pp. 3-70), first published in Venice in 1653, describes in detail the battles and pogroms which took place. "Tzuk ha-itim" by Meir ben Shmuel of Szczebrzeszyn (pp. 71-113), which first appeared in Krakow in 1650, does the same in poetic form. Shabbetai ben Meir's "Megillat aifa" (pp. 115-126) is a shorter poetic description of the events, while Yom Tov Lipman Heller's "Seliha le-khaf Sivan" (pp. 128-134) is a lamentation for the murdered Jews. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)