Yeven Mezulah

Yeven Mezulah (Hebrew: יון מצולה) is a 17th-century book by Nathan ben Moses Hannover, translated into English as Abyss of Despair in 1950.

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.

In addition, he compiled the rest of the book from rumors and other printed sources: "Tzok ha-Ittim" [Sufferings of the Times] by Meir ben Samuel of Shcherbreshin (published in 1650), "Meghillat Efa" [Scroll of Darkness] by Shabbatai HaKohen (1651), and "Petach Teshuva" (פתח תשובה, "Gates of Penitence") by Gabriel Ben Yehoshua Schussburg (1651).

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

[5][6] The author writes in his introduction "I named my book YEVEN M'TZULAH (THE DEEP MIRE) because the words of Psalmist allude to these terrible events."

Title page says: "Book *Depth of Mire* ", original 1653 edition

First edition of Yeven Mezulah (1653): "I write of the Evil Decrees of Chmiel , may his name be obliterated ... in (5)'408 to '411 Anno Mundi "