caption death_date death_place children birth_place title buried nationality denomination name parents semicha birth_date spouse image article_title birth_name
gravestone in har hamenuchot cemetery of jerusalem 1980 new york city simcha bunim akiva sarah 4 other daughters mattersdorf , austria mattersdorfer rav jerusalem , israel austrian haredi shmuel ehrenfeld rabbi simcha bunim ehrenfeld gittel krauss rabbi meir arik and rabbi yosef engel 1891 rochel ehrenfeld shmuel ehrenfeld gravestone.jpg shmuel ehrenfeld
 shmuel ehrenfeld
shmuel ehrenfeld

shmuel ehrenfeld -lrb- , 1891 -- 1980 -rrb- , known as the mattersdorfer rav , was a pre-eminent orthodox jewish rabbi in pre-war austria and a respected torah leader and community builder in post-war america .
he established yeshivas chasan sofer in new york and taught thousands of students who went on to become leaders of american torah jewry .
he also founded the neighborhood of kiryat mattersdorf in jerusalem , israel , where his son and grandson became prominent torah educators .
he was the great-great-grandson of the chasam sofer through the chasam sofer 's daughter hindel , who married rabbi dovid tzvi ehrenfeld .
