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[[File:Rabbi Solomon Schindler.jpg|thumb|Rabbi Solomon Schindler]]
'''Solomon Schindler''' (1842–1915) was a [[rabbi]] and author.

==Biography==
He was born at [[Nysa, Poland|Neisse]], [[Germany]] on April 24, 1842, and was educated at [[Wrocław|Breslau]].<ref name=GlobeObit>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120175855/rabbi-solomon-schindler-dead/ |title=Rabbi Solomon Schindler Dead |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=5 |date=1915-05-05 |access-date=2023-03-04 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He married Henrietta Shutz on June 24, 1868, and they had four children.<ref name=GlobeObit/>

After emigrating to the United States in 1871, he served as [[Minister (religion)|minister]] of [[Wiktionary:congregation|congregations]] at [[Hoboken, New Jersey]], and in [[Boston, Massachusetts]] (at [[Temple Israel (Boston)|Temple Israel]]) until 1894. He was also a member of the Boston School Board during 1888–1894.  During 1895–1899 he was [[Management|superintendent]] of the [[Federation of Jewish Charities]] of Boston and thenceforth until 1909, when he retired, served as superintendent of the [[Leopold Morse]] Home. 
He also became a [[Baal teshuva]].<ref>{{cite book
|title=Religious Diversity and American Religious History
|author1=Walter H. Conser |author2=Walter H. Conser, Jr. |author3=Sumner B. Twiss |year=1997
|publisher=University of Georgia Press
|isbn=0-8203-1918-X
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s8A1nN66yRYC&q=baal+teshuva+famous&pg=PA1
}}</ref>

He died in Boston on May 5, 1915, and was buried at [[Temple Israel Cemetery (Wakefield, Massachusetts)|Temple Israel Cemetery]] in Wakefield, Massachusetts.<ref name=GlobeObit/>

==Works==
* ''Messianic Expectations and Modern [[Judaism]]'' (1886)
* ''Dissolving Views of the History of Judaism'' (1888)
* ''Young West: A Sequel to [[Edward Bellamy|Bellamy]]'s [[Looking Backward]]'' (1894)

==References==
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