Solomon Schechter A Biographical Sketch

Author : Cyrus Adler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330329351
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Solomon Schechter written by Cyrus Adler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Solomon Schechter: A Biographical Sketch Doctor Schechter received his education from his father, who belonged to the Hasidie sect and was a man at once of scholarly mould and saintly character. The boy had learned to read Hebrew at the age of three, and at five lie had been initiated into the Pentateuch. In the Jewish community European literature was unknown. He used frequently to tell how his initial inkling of geography was derived from the Sefer Haberith and the letters of Hag Vidaver in the Hebrew weekly ha-Magid in which he first read the name America. He was deprived of dictionaries, grammars, and concordances, those great labor-saving devices. But there were in this Roumanian town, whose Jewish population may have gone back many hundreds of years, possibly even to the time of the Khazars, whose history Doctor Schechter in later years so illuminated, copies of the great standard works of Hebrew literature - the Bible, the Talmud, and the Midrash - , although it is certain that they were not represented either in the first or the best editions. At the age of ten he was sent to the Yeshibah at Piatra, an ancient town which boasted a considerable monastic library, but could hardly have possessed a collection of rabbinical literature. After he had passed his thirteenth year, he was sent to Rabbi Joseph Saul Nathanson of Lemberg, a great Talmudist and a voluminous author, from whom he received a highly complimentary testimonial for his zeal and his originality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.