Solomon Schindler

Solomon Schindler

Solomon Schindler (1842-1915) was an American rabbi. He was born at Neisse, Germany, and was educated at Breslau. Coming to the United States in 1871, he was minister of at Hoboken, N. J., and in Boston until 1894. He was also a member of the Boston School Board in 1888-94. In 1895-99 he was superintendent of the Federation of Jewish Charities of Boston and thenceforth until 1909, when he retired, served as superintendent of the Leopold Morse Home. He also became a Baal teshuva. [cite book
title=Religious Diversity and American Religious History
author=Walter H. Conser, Walter H. Conser, Jr., Sumner B. Twiss
year=1997
publisher=University of Georgia Press
isbn=082031918X
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=s8A1nN66yRYC&pg=PA1&dq=baal+teshuva+famous&sig=KtK16fQFgsCDsJCzku94nHqHMF8]

Works

* "Messianic Expectations and Modern Judaism" (1886)
* "Dissolving Views of the History of Judaism" (1888)
* "Young West: A Sequel to Bellamy's Looking Backward" (1894)

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