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The Pressburg Yeshiva, was the largest and most influential Yeshiva in Central Europe in the 19th century. It was founded in the city of Pressburg, Austrian Empire (today Bratislava, Slovakia) by Rabbi Moshe Sofer (known as the Chasam Sofer or Chatam Sofer) and was considered the largest Yeshiva since the time of the Babylonian Talmud.
The Pressburg Yeshiva of Jerusalem (Hebrew: ישיבת פרשבורג) is a leading yeshiva located in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. [11] It was founded in 1950 by Rabbi Akiva Sofer (known as the Daas Sofer ), a great-grandson of Rabbi Moses Sofer (the Chasam Sofer ), who established the original Pressburg Yeshiva in the ...
Pressburg Yeshiva produced hundreds of future leaders of Austro-Hungarian Jewry who made major influence on the general traditional orthodox and future Charedi Judaism. [2] The Bratislava Jewish Community was the largest and most influential in Slovakia. In 1930, approximately 15,000 Jews lived in the city (total population was 120,000).
The yeshiva was founded in 1950 by Rabbi Akiva Sofer (known as the Daas Sofer), a great-grandson of Rabbi Moses Sofer (the Chasam Sofer), who established the original Pressburg Yeshiva in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1807.
Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer (German: Abraham Samuel Benjamin Schreiber), also known by his main work Ksav Sofer or Ketav Sofer (trans. Writ of the Scribe), (1815–1871), was one of the leading rabbis of Hungarian Jewry in the second half of the nineteenth century and rosh yeshiva of the famed Pressburg Yeshiva.
The yeshiva relocated to Białystok, Poland, in 1920, escaping the Russian Revolution, under the lead of Rabbi Avraham Yoffen. The yeshiva continued to grow, with more branches being opened throughout Poland and Lithuania. Destroyed during World War II, Rabbi Yoffen reopened it New York. [24] Pinsk Yeshiva-Navordok
Pressburg Yeshiva (Jerusalem), founded in 1950 by Rabbi Akiva Sofer (the Daas Sofer), great-grandson of the Chasam Sofer Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pressburg Yeshiva .
In approximately 1875 Sofer returned to Pressburg and married another cousin, Malka Esther Spitzer, with whom he had 13 children. [1] In 1881, Sofer became rabbi of the Hungarian city of Eger (Erlau) [1] [3] where he founded a large yeshiva. He also fought Neolog Judaism, a Hungarian reform movement. [1]