List of sofers

Hebrew

A List of sofers, (or the female soferet).

Alphabetic list

Sofer	Time-period	Notes
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

• List of Jews in religion