- Meir ben Isaac Nehorai
- (fl. 11th cent)German religious poet. He lived in Worms and wrote hymns, including the acrostic poem Akdamut. According to tradition he was killed by the crusaders in in 1096.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
Meir ben Isaac Nehorai
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