Nathan ben Moses Hannover

Nathan Nata ben Moses Hannover (Hebrew: נתן נטע הנובר) was a Ruthenian Jewish historian, Talmudist, and Kabbalist.

[1] Hannover is chiefly known for his work entitled Yeven Mezulah (Hebrew: יון מצולה, Venice, 1653; translated into English as Abyss of Despair in 1950[2]).

Hannover in this work gives a brief description of the Polish Crown of the time and of the relations between the Poles, Jews and Cossacks, and the causes which led to the uprising.

This work, owing to its literary value, was translated into Yiddish (1687), into German (1720), and into French by Daniel Levy (published by Benjamin II, Tlemçen, 1855).

Yeven Mezulah was criticized in particular by Shaul Stampfer, Edward Fram, Paul Robert Magocsi's "Ukraine: A History", and Petro Mirchuk.