Hatam Sofer, Pressburg (today Bratislava). The Jews of Pressburg living on the Pálffy estate was the biggest Jewish community of Hungary at its time. They invited Moses Schreiber to be their rabbi in 1806, who, according to family legends, was the descendant of Rashi, the renowned Bible Commentator living in the 11th century. Moses Schreiber (or traditionally ‘Hatam Sofer’ as he is referred to in the Jewish world, after the title of his book made on rabbinic decisions) has radically opposed any kind of innovation. He believed, based on his experiences in Germany, that adaptation and integration to the rising middle class of the Christian world would eliminate the strict separation of Jewish communities, which secured the survival of Judaism for centuries. He wanted to build “fences and limits” around the tradition in order to make lessen the effects of modernization in the Jewish world. He established a yeshiva, that became the most influential rabbinic seminar in the world. He had such a great respect that he had visitors coming even from Africa asking questions on Halacha (Jewish law). His answers were only printed after his death, in 1859, in Pressburg.