Solomon Winter, Hungarian

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; born in the county of

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, in 1778; died at Hunsdorf, in the same county, February 24, 1859, after laboring for sixty years for the advancement of the Jewish race in his locality. The erection of the synagogue in Hunsdorf about 1820, and the construction of the school in 1840, were due to him; and he was a representative of the collective communities of the county in the

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congress of Jewish notables.

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Hungarian Jews 1778 births 1859 deaths People from the Austrian Empire {{Hungary-bio-stub