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    Title

  • Rabbi Moses Sofer

    • Other Title(s)

  • Rabbi Moses Schreiber

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white

  • Date

    undated

  • Depicted

    Sofer, Moses, 1762-1839

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Rabbis

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Paul Arnsberg Collection, AR 7206

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Moses “Schreiber” (Moshe Sofer) was born in Frankfurt/M. in 1762 and grew up to become a Jewish scholar and a strong opponent to his generation’s Jewish reform movement. From 1782 on, Moses took on positions as a rabbi in Moravia and in western Hungary, before settling in Pressburg (Bratislava, Slovakia) in 1802, and founding a Yeshiva that became one of the most influential Jewish orthodox schools. He became known as “Moses, the Scribe”, although his numerous Talmudic, biblical, and liturgical sermons and commentaries, as well as religious poetry were published only posthumously. Moses Sefer died in Pressburg in 1839.

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Citation

Rabbi Moses Sofer, Leo Baeck Institute, F 62.