List of sofers
A List of sofers, (or the female soferet).
Alphabetic list
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) |
Sofer | Time-period | Notes |
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Ezra the Scribe | 5th century B.C. | Prophet and leader of the Jewish nation |
Baruch ben Neriah | 6th century B.C. | Scribe for the Prophet Jeremiah |
Aaron ben Moses ben Asher | 10th century | Tiberian scribe |
Azaria Piccio | 17th century | Venice, Republic of Venice |
Jekuthiel Sofer | 18th century | Amsterdam |
Tzvi Sofer | 18th century | Baal Shem Tov's student and personal sofer |
Samuel Benjamin Sofer | 19th century | Pressburg, Hungary |
Abraham Sternhartz | Late 19th/early 20th century | Ukraine |
Menachem Davidovitch | 20th and 21st centuries | Most influential scribe of his generation (Post-war) |
Mordechai Pinchas | 20th and 21st centuries | UK modern orthodox scribe www.sofer.co.uk |
Aviel Barclay | 20th and 21st centuries | Canada, first certified soferet of modern times |
Jen Taylor Friedman | 20th and 21st centuries | First Torah by a soferet of modern times |
Julie Seltzer | 20th and 21st centuries | America, first Torah by an American soferet |
Yaakov Klein (YK) | 20th and 21st centuries | Orthodox sofer. Safrut blog articles and Instagram |
See also
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- Great Assembly
- List of sofers
- Sefer Torah
- Five Megillot
- Ketubot (marriage contracts)
- Gittin (divorce documents)
- Mezuzot (doorposts)
- Tefillin (amulets)
- Tiqqun (guide text)
- Soferim (Talmud)
- Tagin (serifs)
- Tiqqunei soferim (scribal corrections)
- Torah scroll (Yemenite)
Category:Jewish scribes (soferim)