BRODY, SOLOMON ZALMAN BEN ISRAEL
- BRODY, SOLOMON ZALMAN BEN ISRAEL
- BRODY, SOLOMON ZALMAN BEN ISRAEL (1835–1917), rabbi and
author. Brody, a member of the well-known rabbinical family of that
name, was born in Ungvar (Uzhgorod), Hungary. He was a pupil of
abraham samuel sofer at the Bratislava yeshivah. From 1885 he
served as dayyan in his native town. Brody became known for
his insistence on the strict observance of the law, and in particular
took a stand against circumvention of the law of usury. He set out his
uncompromising attitude in an essay called "Neshekh
ve-Tarbit" (Ha-Maggid, 23 (1879), nos. 34–38), in which
he opposed the practice, then customary, of a shetar iska (an
agreement between a lender and borrower in connection with an
interest-bearing loan applied for trading purposes). Despite his
conservative outlook, he took a positive attitude in support of Zionism,
to which he devoted an essay, "Derishat Ẓiyyon" (first
published in D.Z. Katzburg's Tel Talpiyyot, 12, 1904), and
containing some of his homiletical and halakhic novellae. He also wrote
a work called Divrei Shelomo ha-Yisre'eli, the manuscript of
which was in the possession of his son Ḥayyim, chief rabbi of Prague.
Brody was the son-in-law of solomon ganzfried , the author of the
Kiẓẓur Shulḥan Arukh.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Ben-Menahem, in: Sefer ha-Mizrachi, Koveẓ le Zikhro shel J.J.
Reines (1946), 174–5; Weingarten, in: Mizpeh (1953),
457; EẒD, 1 (1958), 359–60.
(Elias Katz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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