Shemaiah of Soissons

Shemaiah of Soissons was a Jewish scholar of the 12th century, a pupil of Rashi. He was the author of the following works:

• Sodot or Midrash, notes on the construction of the Tabernacle as described in Ex. xxv.-xxvi. It was edited on the basis of the Munich manuscript by Berliner in Monatsschrift, 1864, pp. 224 et seq.
• An exegesis of Deut. xiii., in manuscript.
• Commentary on the Maḥzor, also in manuscript.
• Glosses on the Pentateuch.
• Commentary on the Song of Solomon.

He is often erroneously identified with Shemaiah of Troyes.

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

• Gedaliah ibn Yaḥya, Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah, ed. Amsterdam, p. 38b;
• David Conforte, Ḳore ha-Dorot, p. 18a;
• Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, p. 83a;
• Zunz, Z. G. p. 76;
• idem, Ritus, p. 201;
• Dukes, in Literaturblatt, v. 232;
• A. Geiger, Parschandatha, p. 20, note;
• Henri Gross, Gallia Judaica, p. 648.

External links

• Jewish Encyclopedia article for Shemaiah of Soissons, by Wilhelm Bacher and Schulim Ochser.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jewish Encyclopedia. 1901–1906.