Solomon Zalman ben Judah Loeb ha-Kohen Hanau (later known by the acronym Raza"h or Zalman Hanau or Zalman Henna
(1687–1746), was a German Jewish expert in
Hebrew grammar and critical textual critic of Jewish liturgy and prayer
nussach
In Judaism, Nusach ( he, נוסח ''nusaħ'', modern pronunciation ''nusakh'' or ''núsakh''), plural nuschaot () or Modern Hebrew nusachim (), refers to the exact text of a prayer service; sometimes the English word "rite" is used to refer to th ...
.
Birthplace
Shlomo (Zalman) ben Yehuda Leib Katz was born in
Hanau
Hanau () is a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main and is part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Its Hanau Hauptbahnhof, station is a ...
(also known as ''Henna''
[), Germany and lived in part in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Berlin and Hanover. At the age of 21 he composed his first dikduk work, "Binyan Shlomo". He was fiercely criticized by Jacob Emden, though Emden's father, Tzvi Ashkenazi, authored an approval letter to Hanau for his textual work. Recent study suggests that Shneur Zalman of Liadi followed many of Solomon's variations when composing his Chabad ]Nusach Nusach can refer to:
* Nusach (Jewish custom)
In Judaism, Nusach ( he, נוסח ''nusaħ'', modern pronunciation ''nusakh'' or ''núsakh''), plural nuschaot () or Modern Hebrew nusachim (), refers to the exact text of a prayer service; sometimes ...
of Jewish prayer ( Nusach Ari).
Family
He had a son Simson b. Salomo who worked as a printer in Homburg vor der Höhe
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe () is the district town of the Hochtaunuskreis, Hesse, on the southern slope of the Taunus mountains. Bad Homburg is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main Regional Authority, Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. The town's offic ...
until 1730. He printed an edition of the Ma'assebuch in 1727.[Jakob Meitlis: ''Das Ma'assebuch. Seine Entstehung und Quellengeschichte. Zugleich eine Einführung in die altjiddische Agada. Mit einem Geleitwort von Moses Gaster, PH. D., London'' Buchhandlung Rubin Mass, Berlin 1933. p. 43 (reprint Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim u. a. 1987, )]
Hebrew works
Binyan Shlomo
(Frankfurt)
HateivahSha'arei Tefillah, (The gates of prayer)
(Isnitz)
Baith TfilahNikkud basics
(Amsterdam)
Exchange Torah
(Hamburg)
Footnotes
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1687 births
1746 deaths
People from Hanau
Grammarians of Hebrew
Kohanim writers of Rabbinic literature
17th-century German Jews