Solomon Klein (October 14, 1814 – November 10, 1867), was a French

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. He was successively district rabbi at Bischheim (1839–41), Durmenach (1841–48), and Rixheim (1848–50). From 1850 to 1867 he was grand rabbi at

Colmar Colmar (, ; Alsatian: ' ; German during 1871–1918 and 1940–1945: ') is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is ...

, which rabbinate had been occupied by

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, and

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. Klein was the author of the following works: *"Nouvelle Grammaire Hébraïque Raisonnée et Comparée," Durmenach, 1846 *"Traduction Française et Annotation du Sefer Yesodot ha-Maskil de R.

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du Portugal, XIVe Siècle," in the "Dibre Ḥakamim" of Eliezer Ashkenazi, Metz, 1849 *"Notions Elémentaires de la Grammaire Hébraïque" *"Guide du Traducteur du Pentateuque," 1851 *rules for the Ḥazzan and for the Shoḥeṭ, in Hebrew and German, 1855 *"Le Judaïsme ou la Vérité sur le Talmud" (German transl. by Mannheimer), Mülhansen, 1859 *"M. Philippson et Sa Traduction de la Bible," in "Univ. Isr." 1860 *"Recueil de Lettres Pastorales et de Discours d'Inauguration," Colmar, 1863 *"Cours de Thèmes et de Versions Hébraïques à l'Usage des Commençants," Mülhausen, 1866; "La Justice Criminelle chez les Hébreux," published posthumously in "Arch. Isr." 1898.

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