Editing Solomon Schechter (section)

==Early life==
He was born in [[Focşani]], [[Moldavia]] (now Romania), to Rabbi Yitzchok Hakohen, a [[shochet]] ("ritual slaughterer") and member of [[Chabad]] [[hasidim]]. He was named after its founder, [[Shneur Zalman of Liadi]]. Schechter received his early education from his father. Reportedly, he learned to read [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] by age 3, and by 5 mastered [[Chumash (Judaism)|Chumash]]. He went to a [[yeshiva]] in [[Piatra Neamț]] at age 10 and at age thirteen studied with one of the major [[Talmud]]ic scholars, Rabbi [[Joseph Saul Nathanson]] of [[Lviv|Lemberg]].<ref>[http://home.earthlink.net/~ddstuhlman/crc35.htm Librarian's Lobby October 2000 Heroes of learning<!-- bot-generated title -->] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165823/http://home.earthlink.net/~ddstuhlman/crc35.htm |date=3 March 2016 }} at home.earthlink.net</ref> In his 20s, he went to the Rabbinical College in [[Vienna]], where he studied under the more modern Talmudic scholar [[Meir Friedmann]], before moving on in 1879 to undertake further studies at the ''[[Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums|Berlin Hochschule]] für die [[Wissenschaft des Judentums]]'' and at the [[University of Berlin]]. In 1882, he was invited to Britain, to be tutor of [[rabbinics]] under [[Claude Montefiore]] in London.