Solomon ben Samson was a scholar of

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in the eleventh century. He was a teacher and relative of

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, who refers to him as an authority beside his other teacher,

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. Most probably he is identical with the Solomon ben Samson mentioned as a native of Vitry, this name being apparently an error for

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, among whose scholars he is cited."Or Zarua'," i. 116a.

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Henri Gross Heinrich Gross, written also as Henri Gross (born Szenicz, Hungarian Kingdom, now Senica, Slovakia, 6 November 1835; died 1910), was a German rabbi. He was a pupil in rabbinical literature of . After graduating from the Breslau seminary and from t ...

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, ''Literaturgeschichte'' p. 157
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* Zunz, ''Zur Geschichte und Literatur'' p. 192
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