SILBERSTEIN, SOLOMON JOSEPH
- SILBERSTEIN, SOLOMON JOSEPH
- SILBERSTEIN, SOLOMON JOSEPH (1845–?), Russian poet and
philosopher. Silberstein was born in Kovno. At the age of 19 he received
rabbinical authorization from a number of rabbis in the provinces of
Kovno and Vilna. He practiced as a rabbi in Dershunisok, Kovno, in
1867–68, and later emigrated to the U.S. He developed a system of
natural theology based on the Mosaic, and the rabbinic and talmudic law
as natural theology.
Silberstein wrote the following works: Gelui Einayim (1881),
poems; Ha-Dat ve-ha Torah (1887); Meẓi'ut Yehovah
ve-ha-Olam (1893); The Universe and its Evolution
(1891); General Laws of Nature (1894); The Disclosures
of the Universal Mysteries (1896); and The Jewish Problem and
Theology in General (1904).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
AJYB, 6 (1904), 187–8.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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