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Pressburg Yeshiva (Jerusalem)

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “leading yeshiva located in the givat shaul neighborhood of jerusalem”. Today it says “orthodox yeshiva”.
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Pressburg Yeshiva of Jerusalem ( ) is a leading yeshiva located in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem .1 It was founded in 1950 by Rabbi Akiva Sofer (known as the Daas Sofer ), a great-grandson of Rabbi Moses Sofer (the Chasam Sofer ), who established the original Pressburg Yeshiva in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1807. As of 2009, the rosh yeshiva is Rabbi Simcha Bunim Sofer . After his death in 2017, his son Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer-Schreiber , who also serves as rosh kollel, succeeded him. The yeshiva building includes a yeshiva ketana , yeshiva gedola , and kollel . The main beis medrash doubles as a synagogue where some neighborhood residents also pray on Shabbat . The complex also includes a general neighborhood synagogue which functions as Givat Shaul's main nusach Ashkenaz synagogue. The Jewish World In The Modern Age . "דור שישי ל'חתם סופר': גאב"ד פרשבורג זצ"ל" .2

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leading yeshiva located in the givat shaul neighborhood of jerusalem

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orthodox yeshiva

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