Eliezer Zussman-Sofer

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 (Paks).

Zussman-Sofer was rabbi of Halas in 1850 and Paks in 1880. He authored 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 Derecske (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 Munkacs and Budapest)
• Shmuel Benjamin, rabbi in Derecske (author of Divrei Sofrim).

His sons-in-law were Rabbi Yitzchok Yakov Blum of Sanshun (Hajdúsámson) and Kroly (Nagykároly and Rabbi Amram Fischer of Yunk .- Gyönk.

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

Further Study

• Volume 1 of Yalkut Eliezer on hebrewbooks.com
• Volume 3 of Yalkut Eliezer on archive.org

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