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Shimon Sofer (Hungarian rabbi)

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In 1870 he married Esther Fried. The couple had a daughter. Esther died after two years of marriage. In 1874 Sofer married his cousin, Glikle Birnbaum. The couple had a son, Akiva, but divorced soon after his birth.
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In approximately 1875 Sofer returned to Pressburg and married another cousin, Malka Esther Spitzer, with whom he had 13 children.
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Sofer's grandson, Yochanan Sofer, re-founded the Erlau community in Israel in 1953. Yochanan printed his grandfather's
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on the Torah. He also edited the works of his father and grandfather and prepared them for publication.
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Shema Yisrael: Testimonies of devotion, courage, and self-sacrifice, 1939 – 1945
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Sofer led the Jewish community in Erlau for some 64 years. Shortly after the Germans
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at the Institute for Research of the Teachings of the Chasam Sofer (
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Hungarian people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
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Sofer had 15 children from his three wives, including
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In 1881, Sofer became rabbi of the Hungarian city of
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Erlau
Pressburg
Kingdom of Hungary
Austrian Empire
Bratislava
Slovakia
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Nazi Germany
Judaism
Hungarian
Samuel Benjamin Sofer
Orthodox Judaism
Rabbi
rosh yeshiva
Eger
Erlauer
Hasidic
Yochanan Sofer
rebbe
Samuel Benjamin Sofer
Moses Sofer
Bratislava
Kisvárda
Uman
Kiev
Kraków
Shimon Sofer
Eger
yeshiva

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