Solomon H. Sonneschein

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S. H. Sonneschein, Solomon H. Sonnenschein (born June 24, 1839, Szent Marton, Turocz megye, Hungary -?) was an Hungarian-American rabbi.

He received his education at Boskowitz, Moravia, where he obtained his rabbinical diploma in 1863, and later studied at Hamburg and at the University of Jena (Ph.D. 1864). He was successively rabbi at Warasdin, Prague, New York, and St. Louis, and as of 1905 officiated at Temple B'nai Yeshurun, Des Moines, Iowa.

Sonneschein contributed for more than forty years to numerous German and English periodicals.

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• The American Jewish Year Book, 1903-1904, p. 101.
• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia article "Solomon H. Sonneschein" by Cyrus Adler and Frederick T. Haneman, a publication now in the public domain.