Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Mannheimer [1814-1886] was the rabbi of Werbau and Ungvar and leader of the Orthodox Jewish community in Hungary. He was an elite disciple of the Chatam Sofer, renowned as a genius from a young age.
After he learned by great geonim Rabbi Yaakov Kopel Charif and Rabbi Binyamin Zev Lev, recognised as a child prodigy & before he was even thirteen, he was accepted to the Chatam Sofer’s yeshivah, where proficient older students studied.
At the beginning of his Rabbanut he served as Rav in Shutelsdorf and after there he was Rav in the big city of Werbau, there he served in Rabbanut and established a very large Yeshiva.
In the year 1871 he was appointed as Rav of the city of Ungvar in place of Rabbi Menachem A"sh. Although he conducted himself according to Ashkenazi Rabbanim, he was very accepted by the righteous of Chassidut who accorded him much praise. Many of Hungarien Rabbanim amongst them great sages from the following generation, learned in his Yeshivot in Wervau and Ungvar.
From the known disciples, the ‘Maasei L’Melech’ Rabbi Yeshaye Silbertein, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld Chief Rabbi of Isreal, Rabbi Yosef Elimelech Kehana and many more.
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