Recueil de Lettres Pastorales et de Discours d' Inauguration

Rabbi Shlomo Zev Wolf Klein (1815-1868) was the Chief Rabbi of Colmar and spiritual leader of the Jews of Alsace-Lorraine. He was a close friend and colleague of R. Samson Raphael Hirsch and, like Hirsch, Klein was an avid defender of Orthodox Jewry against Reform inroads. These Pastoral Letters and discourses include holiday sermons, as well as inaugurations of various synagogues and other institutions. For a biography of Klein and his disagreements with the reformist tendencies of the central Consistoire in Paris and the Consistoire in Colmar, plus a historical overview of the Jewish communities in Alsace-Lorraine and a review of Klein’s scholarly output, see the introduction by E. Katzman to the collected Hebrew works of Shlomo Zev Klein, in S. & N.Schischa, Az Amar Shlomo (2009) pp. 5-30) and L. Jung, Leo, Sages and Saints (1987) pp. 219-30