10 Facts About Solomon Eger

Rabbi Solomon Eger was an influential rabbi and successor of his father as the rabbi of Posen, then in Germany.

Solomon Eger was born to Rabbi Akiva Eger and his first wife, Glickel.

Solomon Eger's older brother, Abraham Eger was a rabbi in Rawicz.

Solomon Eger studied with his father, and afterwards he started working as a merchant in Warsaw, but in 1831 he lost his fortune due to the November uprising.

Solomon Eger was a staunch opponent of Reform Judaism, and, when in 1838 a controversy broke out in Breslau about who should be elected as local chief rabbi, Rabbi Gedaliah Tiktin was eventually confirmed by the king not independently of Eger's support.

Many of Solomon Eger's letters appeared in his father's collected responsa, but he was in correspondence with other leading rabbis of his generation as well.

Solomon Eger took his father's side during the debate between the Romm publishing house in Vilna and the Shapiro press in Slavita, which was a part of the long-standing feud between the Misnagdim and Chasidim movements.

The latter party accused Solomon Eger of having influenced his father by dishonest means:.

An old legend of questionable credibility claims that Solomon Eger sat shiva for his own son, when he started studying at another Chasidic Rabbi, Menachem Mendel of Kotzk.

Solomon Eger's granddaughter, Ulla Wolff, was a prominent playwright, novelist, and journalist.