Entry by Louis Jacobs in the Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture: from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Blackwell Publishing: 1990), 674-5. Schechter, Solomon (1847-1915) Scholar, theologian, and president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Schechter was born in Fascani, Romania, where his father, a Habad Hasid, was a shohet (hence the family name)….