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Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld
Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld
1848 CE–1932 CE · Acharonim · Verbó
Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld was born in 1848 in Verbó (Vrbové), then in the Austrian Empire. As a young man he studied at the Pressburg yeshiva under Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer, known as the Ksav Sofer, and after his marriage continued in Kobersdorf under Rabbi Avraham Shag. He settled in Jerusalem in 1873 and became a prominent voice in the city's Old Yishuv, the established pre-Zionist Ashkenazi community. From 1909 he served as its de facto rabbinic head, formally accepting the title in 1920. He objected to secular Zionism and to the Chief Rabbinate then being organized under the British Mandate, and in 1918 he helped establish the Edah HaChareidis, together with Rabbi Yitzchok Yerucham Diskin, as a self-governing communal framework. His responsa were later gathered in the volume Salmas Chaim. He died in Jerusalem in 1932.
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