Friedlander published a substantial part of the fifth order of the Jerusalem Talmud from 1907–09, which he claimed was from a Spanish manuscript from Barcelona dated 1212 that he had discovered in Turkey. It was, in reality, a mosaic of passages from other parts of the Talmud. It became the subject of considerable controversy. Dr. Ritter, of Rotterdam, conclusively proved the fallaciousness of Friedlaender's claims. On the basis of internal evidence, Ritter showed that the text was an overt forgery. Ritter’s conclusions were supported by many experts, including V. Aptowitzer, W. Bacher, D. B. Ratner and Meir Dan Plotzki. Solomon Judah Friedlaender (c. 1860–c. 1923) a literary forger, gave contradictory biographical accounts of his life, claiming at various times to have been born in Hungary, Turkey, and Rumania, but in all probability he was born in Beshenkovichi near Vitebsk, Belorussia. Friedlaender published Zevahim and Arakhin in 1907, and Hullin and Bekhorot in 1909, with his commentary Heshek Shelomo. With these publications, he reached the summit of his audacity, claiming to be of pure Sephardi descent (Sephardi tahor) from the well-known Algazi family and a native of Smyrna. Among his other questionable works or pure forgeries are Ha-Tikkun (Czernowitz, 1881), purporting to be an authentic manual of hasidic customs, while in fact it is a crude and obscene parody of Hasidism in general and Habad Hasidism in particular; Tosefta, Seder Zer’aim and Seder Nashim (Pressburg, 1889-90), with his commentary entitled Hosak Shelomo); AND an edition of the tractate Yevamot of the Jerusalem Talmud, supposedly from a manuscript, along with a twofold commentary, Heshek Shelomo, Szinervaralja, 1905).

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