The last Hasidim
Solotvino. The salt and the famous
The journalist Eliahu Salptenter, the newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell (Hoch) and Professor Eliezer Schlomovitz, a lecturer at the University of Los Angeles, were natives of Solotvino. Among other distinguished members of the community known to us were Reb Shlomo Tabak, the son of the Gaon Reb Shlomo Judah Tabak of Sighet, the author of ”Erekh Shai”, who was a great scholar in his own right and was authorized to instruct those who applied to him in matters of permission and prohibition. Through his endeavors and financial support, four of his father’s books were printed in Sighet. In the preface of the first three books is inscribed: “published through the efforts of my dear son, the learned and noble Shalom of the settlement of Solotvino. The fourth book was printed (after the author’s death) in the publishing house of the Reb Shalom Tabak. He was one of the few rich men in Solotvino, the owner of grainfields and forests.
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On the Hasidic trail of Maramureș