Samson ben Samuel of Jerusalem (שמשון בן שמואל איש ירושלים), also called Samson ben Samuel of Düren (מדורין) was born in Düren, Germany. He is known as the author of Kitzur Mordechai, an abridgement of Mordechai ben Hillel's work (not to be confused with the Mordechai Katan of Samuel ben Aaron Schlettstadt),These titles may interchange depending on the source, and there are other titles used, and other abridgements mentioned, in older writings. See Rubin, Shammai (2022). Kuntres be-Inyanei Tekiat Shofar (in Hebrew). p. n. 2. and the Yeriot Izzim, a description of the 613 commandments in rhyming verse. According to , the Yeriot Izzim was composed in Jerusalem. According to Shammai Rubin, the Kitzur Mordechai was completed .p. The Yeriot Izzim includes explanatory glosses, though Reiner and dispute whether Samson himself is the author.
Only his Yeriot Izzim has been fully printed, in Venice, 1597. The Kitzur Mordechai on Yoma was published by Israel Peles in 1992,Peles, Israel (1992). "Kitzur ha-Mordechai leRabbenu Shimshon miDuren". Even Yisrael: Kovetz Torani (in Hebrew). Bnei Brak. pp. 52-67. and the Kitzur Mordechai on Rosh Hashanah was published by Shammai Rubin in 2022.Rubin, Shammai (2022). Kuntres be-Inyanei Tekiat Shofar (in Hebrew). p. -20.
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