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Name
  
Eliezer Zussman-Sofer


Died
  
October 10, 1902

Eliezer Zussman-Sofer

Born
  
28. 2.1828
Bratislava

Eliezer Zussman-Sofer (1828–1902) was a Hungarian rabbi and head of a yeshivah. He was the son of Rabbi Mordechai Efraim Fischel Sofer-Zussman of Pressburg and a son-in-law of Rabbi Joel Ungar of Shochtiz and Paks.

Zussman-Sofer was rabbi of Halas in 1850 and Paks in 1880. He authoured a number of works including Yalkut Eliezer, Et Sofer, Meleah Ketoret and Damesek Eliezer.

All of his sons became rabbis:

  • Simon, rabbi in Sendra and Paks
  • Joseph Leib, rabbi in Dratshke (author of Yalkut Sofer)
  • Judah, rabbi in Kadelburg, Yemring, Miklosh and Arad (author of Mate Yehudah and the father-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Sofer of Munkaz and Budapest)
  • Shmuel Benjamin, rabbi in Dratshke (author of Divrei Sofrim).

    • His sons-in-law were Rabbi Yitzchok Yakov Blum of Sanshun and Kroly and Rabbi Amram Fischer of Yunk.

    Zussman-Sofer died on the eve of Yom Kippur, October 1902.

    References

    Eliezer Zussman-Sofer Wikipedia
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