Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Sofer Family
Write the Great Bookסופר
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Sofer lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
The Sofer (Schreiber) dynasty, founded by the Hatam Sofer, pillar of Hungarian orthodoxy.
Geographic origin: Francfort-sur-le-Main → Pressburg (Bratislava)
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Sofer lineage has not yet been written.
Claude Opus 4.8 will compose an original work from archival items in the corpus that mention this lineage, in-depth web research, and family contributions already submitted. The work will comprise approximately 30 to 40 pages — introduction, 5 to 7 chapters, conclusion — and will be automatically enriched with each new contribution.
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Lineage Map
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/soferHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/sofer">Sofer — Zakhor</a>Citation
Sofer — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/soferVariants of the name (6)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin5
SchreiberSzoferSojferSoiferSOFFER
עברית · Hebrew1
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Notable figures
- 1.
Moshe Sofer (Hatam Sofer)
Rabbin de Pressburg
In memory
The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Sofer.
Search “Sofer” on Yad VashemThe search is performed directly in the Yad Vashem archives; Zakhor neither copies nor retains any personal data. The presence or absence of a name in the database is not exhaustive. Learn more
Family tree
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Notable figures of the lineage
Abraham Samuel Benjamin Wolf Sofer
אברהם שמואל בנימין סופר1815–1871
Akiva Sofer
עקיבא סופר1878–1959
Chaim Sofer
חיים סופר1821–1886
Eliʿezer Zusman Sofer
אליעזר זוסמן סופר1828–1902
Moïse Sofer (le Hatam Sofer)
חת"ם סופר1762–1839
Moshe Sofer
משה סופר (ערלוי)1885–1944
Simcha Bunem Sofer
שמחה בונם סופר1842–1906
Simon Isaak Leib Sofer
שמעון סופר1850–1944
Yaakov Chaim Sofer
יעקב חיים סופר1870–1939
Yochanan Sofer
יוחנן סופר1923–2016
Places along the journey
Communities crossed
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Sofer give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
- A. Beider ; L. Menk, Dictionnaires des patronymes juifs d'Europe de l'Est (Beider : Empire russe 2008, Royaume de Pologne 1996, Galicie 2004) et judéo-allemands (Menk 2005), Avotaynu
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