# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yochanan-sofer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:50:50.895Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yochanan-sofer"
name: "Yochanan Sofer"
slug: "yochanan-sofer"
description: "Yochanan Sofer was the rebbe of the Erlau dynasty. He was born in Eger, Hungary, where his father and grandfather were also rebbes. After surviving the Holocaust, he founded a yeshiva, first in Hungary and then a few years later in Jerusalem."
tagline: "Hungarian-born Israeli rabbi"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erlau_Rebbe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
birthDate: "1923-01-01"
deathDate: "2016-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.410116
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "يوشانان صوفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochanan_Sofer"
    title: "Yochanan Sofer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%97%D7%A0%D7%9F_%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A8"
    title: "יוחנן סופר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochanan_Sofer"
    title: "Yochanan Sofer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%97%D7%A0%D7%9F_%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A8"
    title: "יוחנן סופר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8054243"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump