Rabbi Amram Fisher of Yaink/Gyonk

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About Rabbi Amram Fisher of Yaink/Gyonk

Rabbi Moses Yehudah Fisher was born into a scholarly family in Paks, Hungary. His father was Rabbi Amram Fisher, Rabbi Amram Fisher was born in 1853 to his father Rabbi Akiva Fisher, a student of the Chasam Sofer. He studied by his father, by Rabbi Pinchos Elya Ostreicher – Ozlreiner (the Dayan of Oyven Yashan - Obuda), by Rabbi Dr. Azriel Hildesheimer, by Rabbi Avraham Eliezer Zev Alt (Rabbi of Kobersdorf/Kabold), Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Monheimer (Rabbi of Ungvar), and by the Shevet Sofer. He was the son-in-law of Rav Eliezer Zusman Sofer, Rabbi of Halash and Paks. After his marriage in 1873, he became a Dayan in Halash with his father-in-law and in 1878 was appointed to head the Beis Din of DenDek. In 1879 he was appointed as head of the Beis Din of Yanak. There he remained until his passing on 18 Nissan 1925, buried in Yanak. In 1966, his bones were exhumed and reinterred in Jerusalem on Har Hamenuchos. He wrote Divrei Amram, included in the back of his father’s book Ateres Akiva.

His sons were:

Rabbi Mordechai Efraim Fishel Fisher, head of the Beis Din of Sharash – Potok (Sarospatak) and a student of the Shevet Sofer, Rabbi Yosef Betzalel Fisher, Rabbi of Vochterlitz, Rabbi Moses Fisher, our Rabbi, Rabbi Akiva Fisher, Dayan in Kin-Sent-Miklos/Kunszentmiklos and a student of the Daas Sofer, Rabbi Simcha Yoel Fisher who was Rabbi in Deva and Chicago at Congregation Ohavah Tzedek on Claremont Avenue. His son-in-law was Rav Elozor Singer, a Dayan in Rima Sambat/Rimaszombat and a student of the Daas Sofer.

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