Samson H. Rausuk (Hebrew: שמשון ראוזוק, romanized: Šimšon Rauzuq; 1793 – 11 September 1877) was a Lithuanian-British librarian, Hebraist, Talmudic scholar, and poet.
[4] Rausuk was born in Vilkovishk, Lithuania, where he received a traditional Litvak yeshiva education, and pursued a career as a merchant.
[5] On the occasion of the visit of Sir Moses Montefiore to Russia in 1846, Rausuk was one of the delegates appointed to receive him.
He moved to London in 1848, and held the post of librarian to the Leadenhall Street Beth Hamedrash for nearly a quarter of a century.
[6] During this time, he published many of his Hebrew compositions, often dealing with subjects of passing interest to the local community, and contributed to the Jewish Chronicle.