Sermons for Sabbaths and Holidays, several eulogies with a commentary underneath the text by R. Solomon Jacob b. Baruch Mordecai Friederman.He was born in Meretz [Merkine?], near Vilna, ca. 1863-6. He studied with R. Moshe Danishevsky of Slobodka and in various Lithuanian yeshivot. R. Solomon Jacob was ordained by leading rabbis, including R. Isaac Elhanan Spektor and R. Alexander Moses Lapidus of Raseiniai, and he married the daughter of R. Jacob Halevi Lipschitz, R. Spektor's secretary. R. Friederman immigrated to America in 1893 (or 1892?) and settled at first on New York's Lower East Side. He served as the rabbi of Congregation Kol Israel Anshei Folin (Forsythe St.) and was active in the East Broadway Talmud Torah and the Kupat Haramban charity. He relocated to Boston in 1895. He served as the rabbi for the city's United Congregations and engaged in an ill-fated attempt to establish a talmud torah. R. Friederman was well-known as a Yiddish preacher and published collections of sermons. He contributed to rabbinic journals and corresponded with the rabbis of Europe and the Land of Israel (e.g., R. Israel Meir Hacohen, R. Moses Judah Joshua Leib Diskin, R. Hayyim Ozer Grodzinski and R. Abraham Isaac Kook). He was also a member of Agudath Harabbonim and Agudath Israel. R. Friederman was active on behalf of charities in the Land of Israel and he died while visiting there ca. 1935-6.

השער נדפס בשני צבעים, כחול ואדום. כולל דרושים לשבתות ולחגים, חינוך הבנים, בר-מצוה, חתונת כסף, בניין מוסדות ציבור, הספדים, ועוד.

הסכמות: ר' אליעזר ראבינאוויץ, מינסק, ז ניסן תרע"ד; ר' אליהו קלאצקין, לובלין, ז ניסן תרע"ד; ר' אברהם דובער כהנא שאפירא, קאוונא, יב ניסן תרע"ד.