Liturgist of the tenth century. In spite of the epithet "ha-Babli," given him by Rashi (commentary on Exodus 26:15; "Ha-Pardes," p. 43d) and others, he was not a native of any Mohammedan country. Rapoport ("Teshubot ha-Geonim," p. 12b) held that the ancient rabbis included Rome under the designation "Babylon"; this being so, Solomon may have been a native of Rome. He is even so termed by M. Sachs in his translation of the Maḥzor (7:89), though without any further justification.
Solomon was the teacher of Meshullam b. Kalonymus, and, with Simeon the Great of Mayence and Kalonymus, Meshullam's father, was declared to have been of the generation which preceded Gershon Me'or ha-Golah. Solomon was the author of numerous piyyuṭim and seliḥot. Of the former there may be mentioned: an "'abodah," commencing "Adderet tilboshet"; an unrimed piyyuṭ, arranged in alphabetical order, consisting of combinations of
- S. D. Luzzatto, in Orient, Lit. 6:680;
- idem, Luaḥ ha-Payyeṭanim, pp. 66 et seq., in Berliner's Oẓar Ṭob, 1880;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 2318-2319;
- Zunz, S. P. p. 167;
- idem, Literaturgesch. pp. 100-104, 232-235.
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