Meir Eisenstaedter

Eisenstaedter took an active part in Hungarian Jewish communal life and many of the future rabbis of Hungary were his pupils.

[citation needed] The greatest rabbis of Hungary and Galicia including Solomon Kluger of Brody, Ḥayyim Halberstam of Neu Sandec (Nowy Sacz in Poland), and Simon Sofer of Kraków addressed their problems to him.

[citation needed] Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried, author of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch served as dayan (rabbinic judge) during this time in Ungvár.

Eisenstaedter was married to the daughter of David Deutsch, the rabbi of Vágújhely (now Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Slovakia), where he was head of the yeshiva at the time.

Imrei Esh contains his responsa (rabbinic answers to halachic, i.e. Jewish religious questions) and was published by his son in two parts.