Meir of Norwich
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Meir of Norwich
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Meir ben Elijah of Norwich, 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 Abr
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