Judaism in Romania
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: University-Press.org
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9781230839417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Romanian rabbis, Sanz Hasidism, Synagogues in Romania, Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, Laniado Hospital, Moses Gaster, Klausenburg, Spinka, Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum, Seret, List of synagogues in Romania, Eliezer Zusia Portugal, Fishel Hershkowitz, Chaim Halberstam, Siget, Shotz, Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, Jacob Saphir, Jewish Museum, Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam, Vasloi, Moses Josef Rubin, Fabric Synagogue, Ernest Klein, Shmuel Dovid Halberstam, Cluj-Napoca Neolog Synagogue, Great Synagogue, Satu Mare Synagogue, Iosefin Synagogue, Yeshua Tova Synagogue, Bohush, Shlomo Goldman, Templul Coral. Excerpt: Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam (January 10, 1905 - June 18, 1994) was an Orthodox rabbi and the founding rebbe of the Sanz-Klausenburg Hasidic dynasty. Halberstam became one of the youngest rebbes in Europe, leading thousands of followers in the town of Klausenburg, Romania, before World War II. His wife, eleven children and most of his followers were murdered by the Nazis while he was incarcerated in several concentration camps. After the war, he rebuilt Jewish communal life in the displaced persons camps of Western Europe, re-established his dynasty in the United States and Israel, and rebuilt his own family with a second marriage and the birth of seven more children. Halberstam was born in 1905 in the town of Rudnik, Poland. He was a great-grandson (through the direct male line) of Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz (the Divrei Chaim), one of the great Hasidic leaders of Polish Jewry, and a grandson of the Gorlitzer Rebbe, Rabbi Baruch Halberstam (1829-1906). His father, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Halberstam, the Rav of Rudnik, instilled in the young Yekusiel Yehudah a love of Hasidut and Torah scholarship, sharing with him stories of how the Divrei Chaim learned, prayed and conducted his tish (Shabbat and Jewish...