Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American rabbi
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Place of Birth: Rudnik nad Sanem, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
About Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam
- Rabbi 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 moved to the United States and later to Israel, rebuilt Jewish communal life in the displaced persons camps of Western Europe, re-established his dynasty in the United States and Israel, founded a Haredi neighborhood in Israel and a Sanz community in the United States, established a hospital in Israel run according to Jewish law, and rebuilt his own family with a second marriage and the birth of seven more children.
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