Solomon Silberstein

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| birth_place=Slobodka, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire

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| death_place=The Bronx, New York City, United States

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Solomon Joseph Silberstein ({{Langx|yi|שלום יוסף זילבערשטיין|translit=Sholem Yosef Zilbershteyn}}; March 10, 1845 – January 21, 1919) was a Russian–American philosophical writer and poet.{{r|EJ}}

Silberstein was born in Slobodka, Russian Empire, to Zibhya ({{nee|Sandler}}) and Rabbi Aaron Silberstein.{{r|ajyb}} He was the grandson of the Kabbalist Naphtali Herz Ritever.{{r|leksikon}} Educated privately, he received the rabbinical diploma in 1864, and officiated from 1867 to 1868 as rabbi at Dershunisok, in the government of Kovno. He emigrated to the United States in 1881 and settled in New York City.{{r|leksikon}}{{r|wininger}}

Publications

  • {{cite book|title=Gelui enayim|trans-title=Open Eyes|date=1881}}
  • {{cite book|title=Ha-dat veha-Torah|series=880-03Sefer ha-Dat veha-Torah |trans-title=Religion and Law|date=1887|location=New York|publisher=Brody & Chelimer|language=he|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18371438.html}}
  • {{cite book|title=The Universe and Its Evolution|location=New York|publisher=L. Rabinowitz|date=1891|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001919872}}
  • {{cite book|title=Metsi'ut Hashem veha-olam|trans-title=Divinity and the Cosmos|location=New York|publisher=A. H. Rosenberg|date=1893}}
  • {{cite book|title=Six General Laws of Nature|location=New York|publisher=s.n.|date=1894|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/19134}}
  • {{cite book|title=The Disclosures of the Universal Mysteries|location=New York|publisher=P. Cowen|date=1896|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100433167}}
  • {{cite book|title=The Jewish Problem and Theology in General|date=1904|location=New York|publisher=s.n.|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008434683}}
  • {{cite book|title=Takanat agunot|series=Remedial laws for deserted wives |language=yi|trans-title=Remedial Laws for Deserted Wives|location=New York|publisher=A. H. Rosenberg|date=1907|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100479600}}

References

{{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Silberstein, Solomon|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13660-silberstein-solomon|first1=Cyrus|last1=Adler|first2=Frederick T.|last2=Haneman|volume=11|page=336–337}}

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{{cite journal|title=Biographical Sketches of Jews Prominent in the Professions, etc., in the United States|journal=The American Jewish Year Book|volume=6|date=1904–1905|jstor=23600100|pages=187–188|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GXMTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA187}}

{{cite EJ|title=Silberstein, Solomon Joseph|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/silberstein-solomon-joseph}}

{{cite web|title=Sholem-Yoysef Zilbershteyn (Solomon Joseph Silberstein)|first=Joshua|last=Fogel|author-link=Joshua A. Fogel|date=August 23, 2016|website=Yiddish Leksikon|access-date=September 27, 2022|url=https://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/08/sholem-yoysef-zilbershteyn-solomon.html}}

{{cite book|title=Große jüdische National-Biographie|trans-title=Great Jewish National Biography|volume=5|first=Salomon|last=Wininger|date=1931|location=Cernăuţi|publisher=Orient|page=514|language=de|url=https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freimann/content/pageview/6394012}}

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