Background
He was born in Bösing in 1866.
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Solomon Rabbi
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In 1871 he went with his parents to Jerusalem, where he was educated.
Career
By 1890, he was residing in Cairo, Egypt, where he made a living as a rare bookseller and a collector and seller of Cairo Genizah documents. According to Arabist South Dakot Goitein, he also published papers on them, but "in a somewhat unscientific way." Foreign five years starting in 1893, he tried to sell the British Library Geniza documents for pennies on the dollar, but many were declined. He is best known for his midrashic scholarship, his work is one of the two standard midrash compilations from the period (the other is Adolph Jellinek"s Bet Ha-Midrasch).
He died in Jerusalem in 1935.
