Meir ben Elijah of Norwich (Hebrew: מאיר בן אליהו מנורגיץ, romanized: Meïr ben Eliyahu mi-Norgits; fl.
13th century), also known as Meir of England,[1] was a mediaeval English Jewish poet.
He is acknowledged as the "chief representative of the poetic art among the Jews of medieval England.
[4] One long elegiac poem and fifteen smaller ones by him are found in a Vatican manuscript, from which they were published by Abraham Berliner in 1887.
[5] Among them is the liturgical poem Oyevi bim’eirah tikkov ('Put a Curse on My Enemy'), decrying the persecution suffered by English Jews.