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Eulogy for R. Salomon Spitzer delivered by R. Salomon ben Aaron Kutna of Eisenstadt. The eulogy, delivered in Vienna, is here comprised of two parts. The first, delivered with a broken heart on the third day of Hanukkah, the second, delivered the following week in the synagogue to a large assembly. The text is in a single column in rabbinic letters. The title page has German text a the bottom and there is a German title page at the end of the kuntres.
R. Salomon Spitzer was an Austrian rabbi and champion of Orthodoxy. He died in Vienna, at an advanced age, Dec. 5, 1893. He was the son-in-law of R. Moses Sofer, and was for more than forty years rabbi of the ultra-Orthodox congregation of Vienna, whose synagogue was situated in the "Shiffgasse." He was a strong opponent of Reform, and severely attacked the Vienna "Culturgemeinde" for the Reform measures it introduced in 1872. A collection of his sermons, funeral orations, and novellæ on Talmudical subjects (the latter part bearing the separate title "Shimlat Binyamin") was published by his son-in-law Joseph Baer Kohen, under the title "Tkkun Shelomoh" (Vienna, 1892). Benjamin was buried in Presburg.
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