Ksav Sofer
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Ksav Sofer
Ksav Sofer
1815 CE–1871 CE · Acharonim · Pressburg (Bratislava)
Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer (1815–1871), remembered by the title of his writings as the Ksav Sofer, was born in Pressburg (present-day Bratislava), the eldest son of Rabbi Moshe Sofer, the Chatam Sofer, and, through his mother, a grandson of Rabbi Akiva Eiger. He studied in his father's yeshiva, and upon the Chatam Sofer's death in 1839 he succeeded him, at the age of twenty-four, both as rabbi of Pressburg and as head of its yeshiva, then among the largest centers of Talmudic study in Hungary. Over more than three decades in that post he became a widely consulted halachic authority and one of the Hungarian rabbis who resisted the reforms reshaping Central European Jewish life. His responsa and novellae on the Talmud and Torah were published under the title Ksav Sofer. He was succeeded by his son, Rabbi Simcha Bunim Sofer, the Shevet Sofer.
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Stop 1 of 11839–1871Died
Pressburg (Bratislava)פרשבורגSlovakia/Hungary
What they did here
Died here.
About Pressburg (Bratislava)
Where the Chatam Sofer led the major Hungarian yeshiva (1806-1839) and defined the Hungarian-Charedi anti-Reform position.
In Pressburg (Bratislava) at the same time
Moshe Sofer, Michtav Sofer, Dovid Tzvi Hoffman, Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Ksav Sofer’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Moshe Sofer, Michtav Sofer, Dovid Tzvi Hoffman, Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Ksav Sofer’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.