Solomon Kluger
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Solomon ben Judah Aaron Kluger (1783–June 9, 1869) (Hebrew: שלמה קלוגר), born at Komarow, Russian Poland, was chief dayyan and preacher of Brody, Galicia. He was successively rabbi at Rawa (Russian Poland), Kulikow (Galicia), and Jozefow (Lublin), preacher at Brody, and rabbi at Brezany (Galicia) and, again, at Brody (where he held the offices of dayyan and preacher for more than fifty years). He died at Brody on June 9, 1869.
[edit] Works
During his long life Kluger wrote a great number of works—one hundred and sixty volumes. He wrote on all the branches of rabbinical literature as well as on Biblical and Talmudic exegesis, but only the following of his writings have been published (as of 1906):
- Sefer ha-Ḥayyim (Zolkiev, 1825), novellæ on Shulḥan 'Aruk, Oraḥ Ḥayyim (his novellæ on the other parts of the Shulḥan 'Aruk have not been published)
- Me Niddah (ib. 1834), halakic and haggadic novellæ on Niddah
- En Dim'ah (part 1; ib. 1834), funeral sermon on the death of Ephraim Solomon Margaliot
- Ebel Yaḥid (Warsaw, 1836), funeral oration on Menahem Manis Mordecai Teomim
- Nidre Zerizin (Zolkiev, 1839), novellæ on Nedarim
- Ebel Mosheh (with En Dim'ah, part 2; Warsaw, 1843), funeral orations on Moses Schreiber (Sofer) and Jacob Lissa
- Shenot Ḥayyim (Lemberg, 1855; the first part contains responsa on Shulḥan 'Aruk, Oraḥ Ḥayyim; the second, responsa and novellæ for scribes)
- Sefer Setam (ib. 1856), laws for scribes
- Moda'a le-Bet Yisrael (Breslau, 1859), responsa, chiefly of other rabbis, concerning maẓẓot made by machine
- Ṭub Ṭa'am wa-Da'at (Lemberg, 1860; the first part contains the laws of ṭerefah; the second, entitled Ḳin'at Soferim, contains laws for scribes and various laws of the Yoreh De'ah)
- Ḥiddushe Anshe Shem (Leipsic, 1860), novellæ on Shulḥan 'Aruk, Eben ha-'Ezer
- Ma'aseh Yede Yoẓer (Lemberg, 1863), commentary on the Pesaḥ Haggadah
- Sefer 'Abodat 'Abodah (Zolkiev, 1865), novellæ on Abodah Zarah
- Kluger's taḳḳanot concerning slaughtering are printed in Ganzfried's Torat Zebaḥ (Lemberg, 1848), and two of his responsa in David Solomon Eybeschütz's Ne'ot Deshe (ib. 1861).
[edit] Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography
- Ha-Maggid, xiii., No. 25;
- E. Kohn, Ḳin'at Soferim, pp. 108a-109b, Lemberg, 1892;
- Strelisker, in Ha-Maggid, xiii., No. 29;
- Van Straalen, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 125;
- Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. pp. 414-415;
- Judah Aaron Kluger, Toledot Shelomoh, Lemberg, 1898.
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
