1913 CE–2015 CE · ACH · Jerusalem
R. Shmuel Wosner (1913–2015) was the senior posek of Bnei Brak's Zichron Meir neighborhood for over sixty years and a halachic authority for Hungarian, German, and worldwide chareidi communities. Born in Vienna and educated in the great Pressburg yeshiva, he survived the Holocaust and rebuilt in Bnei Brak, founding Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin there.
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Born on September 4, 1913, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
Major Central European Jewish center pre-Holocaust. Home of Isaac of Vienna (Or Zarua), R. Shimshon Raphael Hirsch's training, R. Akiva Eger's son-in-law Chatam Sofer.
Bnei Brak · 1965
Eleven-volume responsa work renowned for clarity and rigor, covering all sections of Shulchan Aruch. Particularly authoritative on questions of kashrut, niddah, and Shabbat.
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