Solomon Eger

Family His sister, Sarah (or Sorel) Eger was the second wife of Rabbi Moses Sofer in Pressburg.

His son, Rabbi Judah Leib Eger (1816–1888) turned into a Chasid through the influence of Yitzchak Meir Alter in Warsaw, and later founded the Lublin Chasidic dynasty. An old legend of questionable credibility claims that Eger sat shiva for his own son, when he started studying at another Chasidic Rabbi, Menachem Mendel of Kotzk. Subsequently, Judah Leib left to study under Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner, the founder of the Izhbitza–Radzyn dynasty, and became a Chasidic rebbe after his death along with his son, Rabbi Yaakov Leiner. Eger's granddaughter, Ulla Wolff, was a prominent playwright, novelist, and journalist.

Works Gilyon Maharsha (גליון מהרש"א): notes on the Talmud and on Alfasi's Code appended to the Vilna Talmud (1859) Gilyon Rasha (גליון רש"א): notes on Yoreh De'ah (1859) Toledot Rabbenu Akiva Eger (תולדות עקיבא איגר): biography of Rabbi Akiva Eger co-written with his brother, Abraham (1862) Sefer Igerot Soferim (איגרות סופרים): collected letters of the Eger and Schreiber family edited by Rabbi Solomon Schreiber (1929) Shut Rasha (שו"ת רש"א): collected responsa (1983–1985) Sefer haIkarim (ספר העיקרים): essays on halakhic issues (1992–1996)