This is another book, printed in London, by an almost forgotten Rabbi, Samuel David Sobel of Forshtadt. It is a commentary on Shir Hashirim. The printer was Eliahu Zev Wolf Rabbinovitz of 64, High Street, Whitechapel.
I know very few biographical details about the author, other that he lived in Grodno, and came to London at the end of the nineteenth century, where this book was published in 1899. He then moved to New York, where he was the Rav of a synagogue called Anshei Mir. A second edition of this book was published in New York in 1907. Rabbi Shmuel Dovid ben Dov Ber died in New York in 1908, and is buried in Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens, Path X, Row 71. He had a brother, Rabbi Moshe Sobel, who died in 1920 and is buried near him.
The book has an interesting and impressive page of haskomos (approbations or letters of approval). These include Rabbi Chaim Berlin, Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Meisel of Lodz, Rabbi Avraham Aharon Yudelovitz, then of Manchester, Dayan Chaim Susman who had been a rabbi in Manchester and was appointed to the London Beth Din in 1893 to succeed Dayan Reinowitz and others. (Rabbi Yudelovitz lived in England for about 20 years and then, in 1909, emigrated to the United States, where he eventually became Rav of the Eldridge Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side of New York City.)
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