This book contains the writings of Rabbi Shlomo Stencl, who was the elder brother of Avrum Nochum Stencl. A. N. Stencel was the writer and poet, who arrived in London in about 1936 and published and edited the monthly Yiddish magazine Loshen un Lebn for about 40 years. His book London Lyrics was published in London in 1940.
Rabbi Shlomo was born on August 16th, 1884, in the small town of Czelad, Poland to Chaim Dove Stencl, a Chassidic Rabbi from Radomsk. Following his marriage, in 1902, to Miriam Bayla, the daughter of Rabbi Ephraim Mordechai Zweigenhaft, Rabbi Shlomo started to keep a diary.
At the age of 21, he was appointed Rabbi of Czelad. Four years later he moved to Sosnowitz, where he became Rabbi, Dayan (judge on the Rabbinical Court) and Rosh Teshiva (Head of the Rabbinical School).
Sadly, he died on August 31, 1919 at the early age of 35. His father collected and prepared his son’s writings for publication, in two books. This first one, Koheles Shlomo, was published in 1932. It has Haskomos (approbations) from important rabbis.
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