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List of Hasidic dynasties



 
 
A Hasidic dynasty is a dynasty
Dynasty

A dynasty is a succession of rulers who belong to the same family for generations. A dynasty is also often called a "Royal House", e.g. the House of Saud or House of Habsburg....
 of Hasidic spiritual leaders known as rebbe
Rebbe

Rebbe which means master, teacher, or mentor is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew language word Rabbi. It mostly refers to the leader of a Hasidic Judaism Jewish movement....
s, and usually has some or all of the following characteristics:
  1. Each member of the dynasty is a spiritual leader, often known as an ADMOR (abbreviation for ADireinu MOreinu Rabeinu ("our master, our teacher and our rabbi") or simply as Rebbe
    Rebbe

    Rebbe which means master, teacher, or mentor is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew language word Rabbi. It mostly refers to the leader of a Hasidic Judaism Jewish movement....
     (or "the Rebbe") and at times called the "Ruv" ("the rabbi") and sometimes referred to in English as a "Grand Rabbi";
  2. It continues beyond the initial leader's lifetime by succession (usually by a family descendant);
  3. It is usually named after a key town in Eastern Europe
    Eastern Europe

    Eastern Europe is a term that applies to the geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the Europe. Throughout history and to a lesser extent today, parts of Eastern Europe has been distinguishable from Western Europe and other regions due to cultural, religious, economic, and historical reasons, even though there i...
     where the founder may have been born or lived, or where the group began to grow and flourish;
  4. It has (or once had) followers who, through time, continue following successive leaders (rebbes) or may even continue as a group without one leader by following the precepts of a deceased leader.


Larger dynasties
Hasidic dynasties (arranged alphabetically) with a large following include:



Breslov
Breslov (Hasidic dynasty)

Breslov is a branch of Hasidic Judaism founded by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov a great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism. Its adherents strive to develop an intense, joyous relationship with Names of God in Judaism and receive guidance toward this goal from the teachings of Rebbe Nachman....
 is a large chasidic movement which does not fit neatly into this list.






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A Hasidic dynasty is a dynasty
Dynasty

A dynasty is a succession of rulers who belong to the same family for generations. A dynasty is also often called a "Royal House", e.g. the House of Saud or House of Habsburg....
 of Hasidic spiritual leaders known as rebbe
Rebbe

Rebbe which means master, teacher, or mentor is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew language word Rabbi. It mostly refers to the leader of a Hasidic Judaism Jewish movement....
s, and usually has some or all of the following characteristics:
  1. Each member of the dynasty is a spiritual leader, often known as an ADMOR (abbreviation for ADireinu MOreinu Rabeinu ("our master, our teacher and our rabbi") or simply as Rebbe
    Rebbe

    Rebbe which means master, teacher, or mentor is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew language word Rabbi. It mostly refers to the leader of a Hasidic Judaism Jewish movement....
     (or "the Rebbe") and at times called the "Ruv" ("the rabbi") and sometimes referred to in English as a "Grand Rabbi";
  2. It continues beyond the initial leader's lifetime by succession (usually by a family descendant);
  3. It is usually named after a key town in Eastern Europe
    Eastern Europe

    Eastern Europe is a term that applies to the geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the Europe. Throughout history and to a lesser extent today, parts of Eastern Europe has been distinguishable from Western Europe and other regions due to cultural, religious, economic, and historical reasons, even though there i...
     where the founder may have been born or lived, or where the group began to grow and flourish;
  4. It has (or once had) followers who, through time, continue following successive leaders (rebbes) or may even continue as a group without one leader by following the precepts of a deceased leader.


Larger dynasties


Hasidic dynasties (arranged alphabetically) with a large following include:

NameCurrent (or last) RebbeFounderHeadquartered InCity/Town of Origin
Belz
Belz (Hasidic dynasty)

Belz is a Hasidic Judaism named for the town of Belz, a small town in Western Ukraine. The town has existed since at least the 10th century with the Jewish community being established during the 14th century....
Yissachar Dov Rokeach
Yissachar Dov Rokeach (II)

Yissachar Dov Rokeach is the fifth and present Rebbe of the Hasidic Judaism dynasty of Belz . He is the son of Rabbi Mordechai of Bilgorai and the nephew of the fourth Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Rokeach, who raised him....
Sholom Rokeach (1781–1855)Jerusalem
Jerusalem

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Belz
Belz

Belz , a small town in the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, near the border with Poland, is located between the Solokiya river and the Rzeczyca stream....
, Galicia/Poland (now in Ukraine
Ukraine

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)
Bobov
Bobov (Hasidic dynasty)

Bobov, is a Hasidic Judaism group within Haredi Judaism originating in Bobowa, Galicia in Southern Poland and now headquartered in the neighborhood of Borough Park in Brooklyn, New York....
Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam
Ben Zion Halberstam (The Second)

Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam is the disputed Grand Rabbi of the Bobov Hasidic Judaism movement. Born in 1955 to Grand Rabbi Solomon Halberstam of Bobov , the third Bobover Rebbe, Rabbi Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam is regarded by many as the Bobover Rebbe ....
;
Mordechai Dovid Unger
Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov
Shlomo Halberstam (The First)

Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam was a Hasidic Rebbe, founder of the Hasidic dynasty of Bobov. He was the son of Rabbi Myer Noson Halberstam . Rabbi Shlomo was a grandson of the Chaim Halberstam of Sanz , a Hasidic Judaism sage of the 19th century whose influence established the groundwork for many other Galicia Hasidic movements....
 (1847–1905)
Borough Park, Brooklyn
Brooklyn

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Bobowa
Bobowa

Bobowa is a town in the Gorlice County, Poland. Administratively attached to the Lesser Polish Voivodeship, it is located 18 kilometres from Gorlice, at Biala Tarnowska River....
 and Sanz
Nowy Sacz

Nowy Sacz [] is a town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland. It is the district capital of Nowy Sacz County, but is not included within the powiat....
, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now in Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
)
Breslov
Breslov (Hasidic dynasty)

Breslov is a branch of Hasidic Judaism founded by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov a great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism. Its adherents strive to develop an intense, joyous relationship with Names of God in Judaism and receive guidance toward this goal from the teachings of Rebbe Nachman....
NoneNachman of Breslov
Nachman of Breslov

Nachman of Breslov , also known as Reb Nachman of Bratslav, Reb Nachman Breslover , Nachman from Uman , was the founder of the Breslov ....
 (1772–1810)
Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
, Uman
Umán

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Bratslav
Bratslav

Bratslav is a townlet in Ukraine, located in the Nemyriv raion of Vinnytsya Oblast, by the Southern Bug river. It is a medieval European city having dramatically lost its importance during 19th-20th centuries....
, Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
Chabad Lubavitch
Chabad

*Chabad is an acronym for Chochmah, Binah, and Da'at, the three levels of Sefirot related to cognition according to the Kabbalah.*Chabad-Strashelye, Strashelye is a branch of the Chabad school of Hasidic Judaism....
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Menachem Mendel Schneerson In 1950, upon the death of his father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, he assumed the leadership of Chabad Lubavitch....
 (1902–1994)
Schneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812)Crown Heights
Crown Heights

Crown Heights can refer to:* Crown Heights, Brooklyn* Crown Heights, New York, a hamlet on the west side of the Poughkeepsie , New York...
, Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
Lyubavichi
Lyubavichi

Lyubavichi is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Rudnyansky District, Smolensk Oblast of Smolensk Oblast, Russia. In the days of the Russian Empire, it was a shtetl in Orshansky Uyezd, in Mogilev Governorate....
, Russia
Ger
Ger (Hasidic dynasty)

Ger, or Gur is a Hasidic Judaism dynasty originating from Ger, the Yiddish language name of G?ra Kalwaria, a small town in Poland.Prior to the Holocaust, Ger was the largest and most important Hasidic group in Poland....
Yaakov Aryeh Alter
Yaakov Aryeh Alter

Yaakov Aryeh Alter, , is the seventh and current Rebbe of the Hasidic Judaism dynasty of Ger , a position he has held since 1996. He lives in Israel and has followers in Europe and the United States....
Yitzchak Meir Alter
Yitzchak Meir Alter

Yitzchak Meir Alter , is considered to be the first Rebbe of the Ger Hasidic Judaism dynasty, which he founded in the town of G?ra Kalwaria , Poland....
 (1799–1866)
Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
Góra Kalwaria
Góra Kalwaria

G?ra Kalwaria [] is a town on the Vistula River in the Mazovian Voivodship, Poland, about 25 km southeast of Warsaw. It has a population of about 11,000 ....
, Poland
KlausenbergTzvi Elimelech Halberstam;
Shmuel Dovid Halberstam
Shmuel Dovid Halberstam

Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Halberstam, , also known as the Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe of Borough Park, is the son and successor of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam....
Chaim Halberstam
Chaim Halberstam

Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Nowy Sacz , known as the Divrei Chaim after his magnum opus on halakha, was a famous Hasidic rebbe and the founder of the Sanz ....
 of Sanz (1796–1876)
Boro Park, Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
;
Netanya
Netanya

Netanya is a city in the Center District of Israel and is the capital of the Sharon plain. It is located between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca

, until 1974 Cluj, is the second largest city in Romania and the seat of Cluj County in north-western Transylvania. Geographically, it is roughly equally distant from Bucharest , Budapest and Belgrade ....
 in Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
, and Sanz
Nowy Sacz

Nowy Sacz [] is a town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland. It is the district capital of Nowy Sacz County, but is not included within the powiat....
, Austria (now in Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
)
Satmar
Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)

Satmar is a Hasidic movement of mostly Hungarian and Romanian Hasidic Jews who survived World War II. It was founded and led by the late Hungarian-born Grand Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum , who was the rabbi of the town of Szatm?rn?meti, Kingdom of Hungary up to World War II....
Aaron Teitelbaum
Aaron Teitelbaum

Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum is one of two Grand Rebbes of Satmar , and the chief rabbi of the Satmar community in Kiryas Joel, New York. He is the elder son of Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, the late Satmar Rebbe#Chasidic rebbes of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who was the nephew of the late Satmar Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, who founded...
;
Zalman Leib Teitelbaum
Moshe Teitelbaum of Ujhel
Moshe Teitelbaum (Ujhel)

Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum , also known as the Yismach Moshe, was the Rebbe of S?toralja?jhely in Hungary. According to L?w, he signed his name "Tamar", this being the equivalent of Teitelbaum, which is the Yiddish for "palm-tree" ....
 (1759–1841)
Kiryas Joel, New York
New York

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;
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordering Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and Bushwick, Brooklyn....
Satu Mare
Satu Mare

Satu Mare is a city with a population of 113,688 and the capital of Satu Mare County, Romania.Satu Mare is the origin of the Satmar Hasidic Judaism Jews, who lived there until World War II and now reside in New York City, Jerusalem, London, and other places....
, Hungary (now in Romania)
Skver
Skver (Hasidic dynasty)

Skver is the name of a Hasidic Judaism dynasty founded by Rebbe Yitzchok Twerski in the city of Skver . Followers of the Rebbe#Chasidic rebbes of Skver are called Skverer hasidim....
David Twersky
David Twersky

Grand Rabbi David Twersky is the spiritual leader of the village of New Square in New York and of Skverer Hasidic Judaism worldwide. He is the son of Grand Rabbi Yakov Yosef Twersky , whom he succeeded in 1968....
Yitzchak TwerskyNew Square, New York
New Square, New York

New Square is an Hasidim Political subdivisions of New York State#Village in the Ramapo, New York, Rockland County, New York, New York, United States located north of Hillcrest, New York; east of Viola, New York; south of New Hempstead, New York and west of New City, New York....
Skvira, Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
Vizhnitz
Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty)

Vizhnitz is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rebbe Menachem Mendil Hager. Vizhnitz is the Yiddish name of Vyzhnytsia, a village in present-day Ukraine....
Moshe Yehoshua Hager;
Mordechai Hager
Menachem Mendel Hager of KosovBnei Brak
Bnei Brak

File:Location_bneibrak.pngFile:800px-Ponivez1.jpegBnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Gush Dan and Tel Aviv District....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
;
Kaser, New York
Kaser, New York

Kaser is a Political subdivisions of New York State#Village in the Ramapo, New York Rockland County, New York, New York, United States located north of Monsey, New York; east of Airmont, New York; south of Viola, New York and west of Spring Valley, New York....
Vyzhnytsia
Vyzhnytsia

Vyzhnytsia is a town located on the Cheremosh River in the Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Vyzhnytskyi Raion ....
, Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....


Breslov
Breslov (Hasidic dynasty)

Breslov is a branch of Hasidic Judaism founded by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov a great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism. Its adherents strive to develop an intense, joyous relationship with Names of God in Judaism and receive guidance toward this goal from the teachings of Rebbe Nachman....
 is a large chasidic movement which does not fit neatly into this list. Its first and only rebbe was Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
Nachman of Breslov

Nachman of Breslov , also known as Reb Nachman of Bratslav, Reb Nachman Breslover , Nachman from Uman , was the founder of the Breslov ....
 (1772–1810). It originated in Bratslav
Bratslav

Bratslav is a townlet in Ukraine, located in the Nemyriv raion of Vinnytsya Oblast, by the Southern Bug river. It is a medieval European city having dramatically lost its importance during 19th-20th centuries....
, Russia (now in Ukraine); its present-day headquarters are in Tzefat and Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
.

Smaller dynasties


Hasidic dynasties (arranged alphabetically) with a small following include:

NameCurrent (or last) RebbeFounderHeadquartered InCity/Town of Origin
Aleksander
Aleksander (Hasidic dynasty)

Now nearly extinct, the Aleksander Hasidim were the second largest Hasidic Judaism group in pre-The Holocaust Poland.Between the world wars, Hasidic Jews from all over flocked to the small village of Alexander near L?dz, to spend the holiest days of the Jewish year in the presence of their spiritual leader, their Rebbe, Rabbi Yitzchak M...
Yoseph Yitschok Myer Singer;
Yisroel Danziger
Yechiel Dancyger (1828–1894)Borough Park, Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
;
Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak

File:Location_bneibrak.pngFile:800px-Ponivez1.jpegBnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Gush Dan and Tel Aviv District....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
Aleksandrów Lódzki
Aleksandrów Lódzki

Aleksandr?w L?dzki [] is a town in L?dzkie Voivodship and belongs to L?dz agglomeration. According to data gathered on 31 December 2004, the town had a population of 20 342....
, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
Amshinov
Amshinov (Hasidic dynasty)

Amshinov is the name of a Hasidic Judaism dynasty founded by Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Kalish. It is an offshoot of Vurka dynasty. It takes its name from the Yiddish language name of Mszczon?w, a town in Poland....
Yosef Kalish;
Yaakov Aryeh Milikowsky
Yaakov Dovid Kalish of Amshinov (1814–1878), Borough Park, Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
;
Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
Mszczonów
Mszczonów

Mszczon?w [] is a town in Zyrard?w County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 6,310 inhabitants .The town had a Jewish community, and it was once the center of the Hasidic Judaism Amshinov ...
, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
Ashlag
Ashlag (Hasidic dynasty)

Ashlag is the name of a Hasidic Judaism dynasty founded by Rebbe Yehuda Ashlag from Warsaw, Poland. Although Hasidic dynasties are most often named for their town of origin, this dynasty is known by the surname of its rebbes....
Simcha Avraham AshlagYehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag
Yehuda Ashlag

Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag or Yehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag also known as the Baal Ha-Sulam in reference to his magnum opus, was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi born in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, to a family of scholars connected to the Hasidic courts of Porisov and Belz ....
 (1885-1954)
Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak

File:Location_bneibrak.pngFile:800px-Ponivez1.jpegBnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Gush Dan and Tel Aviv District....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
Warsaw
Warsaw

Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
Berditchev
Berditchev (Hasidic dynasty)

Berditchev Hasidic Judaism, also known in Yiddish language as Berditchiver Hasidim, originated in the town of Berdychiv, which over the years was under the control of Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine....
 Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev
Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev

Levi Yitzchok of Berdychiv , known as the Berdichever Rebbe was a rabbi and Hasidic Judaism leader. He was one of the main disciples of the Maggid of Mezritch....
 (1740-1810)
 Berdychiv
Berdychiv

Berdychiv is a historic city in the Zhytomyr Oblast of northern Ukraine. Serving as the Capital city of the Berdychivskyi Raion , the city itself is of direct oblast subordinance, and is located south of the oblast capital, Zhytomyr, at around ....
Bergsass  Elad, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
Beregház
Biala
Biala (Hasidic dynasty)

The Biala Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties originated from Poland. The Rebbe#Hasidic rebbe of Biala are descended from Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Rabinowicz, known as the Yid Hakodosh ....
severalYitzchok Yaakov Rabinowicz (died 1905) Biala Podlaska
Biala Podlaska

Biala Podlaska is a town in eastern Poland with 58,047 inhabitants .It is situated in the Lublin Voivodeship , having previously been the capital of Biala Podlaska Voivodeship ....
, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
Boston
Boston (Hasidic dynasty)

Boston is a Hasidic Judaism sect, named after Boston, Massachusetts. The senior of the Bostoner Rebbes is currently Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz....
Levi Yitzchak Horowitz
Levi Yitzchak Horowitz

Grand Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz is a Hasidic Judaism Rebbe#Hasidic_rebbes....
;
Chaim Avrohom Horowitz
Pinchas Dovid Horowitz (1876-1941)Brookline, Massachusetts
Brookline, Massachusetts

Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston, Massachusetts and Newton, Massachusetts....
; Jerusalem
Boston
Boyan
Boyan (Hasidic dynasty)

Boyan is the name of a Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties, whose founder was a scion of the Ruzhin dynasty. The dynasty began with Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman of Boiany in the Ukraine known as the Pachad Yitzchok of Boyan....
Nachum Dov BrayerYitzchok Friedman (1850-1917)JerusalemBoiany
Chernobyl
Chernobyl (Hasidic dynasty)

Chernobyl is a Hasidic Judaism dynasty that was founded by the "Meor Einayim," Grand Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twersky. The dynasty is named after the Ukraine town of Chernobyl, where Rabbi Nachum served as the magid ....
severalMenachem Nachum Twerski of Chernobyl (1730–1797)Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak

File:Location_bneibrak.pngFile:800px-Ponivez1.jpegBnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Gush Dan and Tel Aviv District....
, Boro Park, Ashdod
Ashdod

Ashdod , is the List of Israeli cities in Israel, located in the South District of the country, on the Mediterranean Sea Israeli Coastal Plain, with a population of 207,000....
Chernobyl
Chernobyl

Chernobyl , or Chornobyl , was a city in northern Ukraine, in the Kyiv Oblast near the border with Belarus.The city was evacuated in 1986 due to the Chernobyl disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which is located 14.5 kilometers north-northwest....
, Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
DorogYisroel Moshe RosenfeldShmuel Frenkel-Komarda of Dorog Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak

File:Location_bneibrak.pngFile:800px-Ponivez1.jpegBnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Gush Dan and Tel Aviv District....
Hajdudorog, Hungary
Dushinsky
Dushinsky (Hasidic dynasty)

Dushinsky is one of the few List of Hasidic dynasties not named after the place where it originated; instead, it is named after the surname of the Rebbe....
Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky
Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky

* Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky , the Maharitz, founder of the Hasidic movement Dushinsky * Rabbi Dushinsky , the current Rebbe of Dushinsky, grandson of the Maharitz...
Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1st)
Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1st)

Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, also known as the Maharitz, was the first Rebbe of Dushinsky and Chief Rabbi of the Edah HaChareidis of Jerusalem....
 (1865-1948)
Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
HoradonkYitzchok Arieh WeiszNachman M'Horadonker Manchester
Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
 
Karlin
Karlin (Hasidic Dynasty)

Karlin-Stolin is the name of a hasidic dynasty originating with Rebbe Aaron the Great of Karlin in present-day Belarus. Karlin was one of the first centres of chasidim to be set up in Lithuanian Jews ....
, or Karlin-Stolin
Baruch Yakov Meir Shochet;
Rav Arye Rosenfeld of Pinsk-Karlin
Aharon the Great of Karlin (1736–1772)Givat Zeev, Israel
Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
;
Karlin
Karlin (Pinsk)

Karlin is the name of a suburb of the city of Pinsk in Belarus. It was founded as a town near Pinsk in 1690. The original name was coined after the village's founder, Jan Karol Dolski....
, Belarus
Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
MachnovkaYehoshua Rokeach
Yehoshua Rokeach of Machnovka

Grand Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach , current Machnovka Rebbe of Bnei Brak is a great-nephew of Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshl of Machnovka, the third Machnovker Rebbe....
Yosef Meir Twersky of MachnovkaBnei Brak
Bnei Brak

File:Location_bneibrak.pngFile:800px-Ponivez1.jpegBnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Gush Dan and Tel Aviv District....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
Machnovka, Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
Melitz   Ashdod
Ashdod

Ashdod , is the List of Israeli cities in Israel, located in the South District of the country, on the Mediterranean Sea Israeli Coastal Plain, with a population of 207,000....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
Mielec
Mielec

Mielec [] is a city in south-eastern Poland with a population of 60,979 inhabitants, as of 30.06.2008. It is located in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship ; previously it was in Rzesz?w Voivodeship ....
, Galicia
Galicia (Central Europe)

Galicia is a historical region in East Central Europe, currently divided between Poland and Ukraine, named after Ukra?ni?n city of Halych.The nucleus of historic Galicia is formed of three regions of western Ukraine: Lvivska oblast, Ternopilska oblast and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast....
Modzitz
Modzitz (Hasidic dynasty)

Modzitz or Modzhitz is the name of a Hasidic Judaism group within Orthodox Judaism that derives its name from Modrzyce, one of the boroughs of the town of Deblin, Poland, located on the Vistula River....
Chaim Shaul TaubYechezkel Taub of Kuzmir (1755–1856)Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak

File:Location_bneibrak.pngFile:800px-Ponivez1.jpegBnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Gush Dan and Tel Aviv District....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
Deblin
Deblin

Deblin [] is a town, population 19,500 , at the Confluence of Vistula and Wieprz rivers, in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. Deblin is the part of the agglomeration with Ryki and Pulawy, and over 100 000 inhabitants....
, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
Munkacz
Munkacz (Hasidic dynasty)

Munkatch is a Hasidic sect within Haredi Judaism of mostly Hungarian Hasidic Jews. It was founded and led by the late Polish-born Grand Rebbe Shlomo Spira, who was the rabbi of the town of Munkacs....
 
Moshe Leib Rabinovich
Moshe Leib Rabinovich

Rebbe Moshe Leib Rabinovich is the current rebbe of Munkacz .Rabinovich was born as the third child to his parents Rabbi Baruch and Frima Rabinovich in Munkacs, Carpathian Ruthenia, Ukraine, the country itself having at the time just been created with a sizable piece of Hungary, which in turn received Munkacs from Czechoslovakia with th...
Shlomo Spira (Shem Shlomo) of MunkaczBorough Park, Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
Munkács
Mukacheve

Mukacheve or Mukachevo is a city located in the valley of the Latorica river in the Zakarpattia Oblast , in southwestern Ukraine. Serving as the Capital city of the Mukachivskyi Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast....
Nadvorna
Nadvorna (Hasidic dynasty)

Nadvorna is a Hasidic rabbinical dynasty within Orthodox Judaism. The dynasty derives its name from the town of Nadvirna, known in Ukrainian as Nadvirna....
severalMordechai Leifer
Mordechai of Nadvorna

Grand Rebbe Mordechai Leifer of Nadvorna was a great-great-grandson of Rabbi Meir "The Great" of Premishlan and was a rebbe in Nadvirna. He was raised by his great uncle, the famous Rebbe Meir'l of Premishlan....
 (1835-1894)
Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak

File:Location_bneibrak.pngFile:800px-Ponivez1.jpegBnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Gush Dan and Tel Aviv District....
,Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
Nadvirna
Nadvirna

Nadvirna is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Nadvirnianskyi Raion.Until World War I, it was part of the Austria-Hungary, in the province of Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria....
, Galicia
Novominsk
Novominsk (Hasidic dynasty)

Novominsk is the name of a Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties originating in Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland and currently based in the United States....
Yaakov Perlow
Yaakov Perlow

Rabbi Yaakov Perlow is a Hasidic Judaism rebbe and rosh yeshiva living in Boro Park, Brooklyn. He is the current Novominsk Rebbe and serves as rosh of the American Agudath Israel of America, a Haredi Judaism communal organization....
 Borough Park, Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
Minsk Mazowiecki
Minsk Mazowiecki

Minsk Mazowiecki is a town in central Poland with 37 138 inhabitants . It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship , previously in Siedlce Voivodeship ....
Pupa
Puppa (Hasidic dynasty)

Puppa is the name of a Hasidic dynasty within Judaism. The dynasty is named after the town of its origin , also known in Hungarian as P?pa. Before World War II, Puppa had an important yeshiva which produced many well-known Orthodox Judaism rabbis in Hungary....
Yaakov Yechezkia GreenwaldMoshe GreenwaldWilliamsburg, Brooklyn
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordering Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and Bushwick, Brooklyn....
Pápa
Papa

Papa can refer to: is just one example. A discussion of this phenomenon can be found in the article Mama and papa.**some people also refer to their grandfathers as "papa"....
, Hungary
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
Rachmastrivka
Rachmastrivka (Hasidic dynasty)

Rachmastrivka is a Hasidic Judaism dynasty named after a town in Ukraine. It is an offshoot of the Chernobyl dating back to the 19th century....
Yitzchak Twerski;
David Twerski
Yochanan Twerski of RachmastrivkaBoro Park, Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
;
Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
Rachmastrivka, Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
Sadigura
Sadigura (Hasidic dynasty)

Sadigura is a Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties, one of the branches of the Ruzhin dynasty.The dynasty began with Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Friedman of Sadhora now located in Ukraine, who was a son of the Holy Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhin , the founder of the Ruzhiner dynasty....
 
Avraham Yakov FriedmanAvraham Yakov Friedman of Sadigura (1820–1883)Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak

File:Location_bneibrak.pngFile:800px-Ponivez1.jpegBnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Gush Dan and Tel Aviv District....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
Sadagóra, Bukovina
Bukovina

Bukovina is a historical region on the northern slopes of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and the adjoining plains. It is currently split between Romania and Ukraine....
Shomer Emunim
Toldos Aharon
Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok
Shomer Emunim (Hasidic dynasty)

Shomer Emunim is a devout, insular Hasidic Judaism sect. It was founded in the 20th century by Rabbi Arele Roth. Based in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, its dress code includes the traditional Jerusalemite white yarmulke and gold-coloured bekishe and requires married women to cover their hair without wearing wigs....
Avrohom Chaim Roth;
Dovid Kohn;
Shmuel Yaakov Kohn
Aharon Roth
Aharon Roth

Rabbi Aharon Roth, known as Reb Ahrele , was the founder of the Shomer Emunim , Toldos Aharon and Toldos Avraham Yitzchak Hasidic Judaism dynasties....
 ("Reb Ahrele") (born 1894 died 1947)
Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
Slonim
Slonim (Hasidic dynasty)

Slonim is a Hasidic dynasty originating in the town of Slonim, which is now in Belarus.Today, there are two Slonimer Rebbes, both in Israel. One in Jerusalem and the other in Bnei Brak....
 
Shmuel Brozovosky;
Avrohom Weinberg
Avraham of SlonimJerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
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Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak

File:Location_bneibrak.pngFile:800px-Ponivez1.jpegBnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Gush Dan and Tel Aviv District....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
Slonim
Slonim

Slonim is a city in Belarus in the Hrodna voblast and Slonim Rayon, located at the junction of the Shchara and Isa Rivers, 143 km southeast of Hrodna ....
, Belarus
Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
Skolye
Skolye (Hasidic dynasty)

Lineage of the Skolya dynastyRabbi Yitzchock of Drubitch , diciple of the Baaal Shem Tov.*Rabbi Yekhiel Mikhl of Zolochiv the Zlotciver Maggid....
 
Avrohm Moshe Rabinowitz Borough Park,Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
Skole
Skole

Skole is a city in the Lviv Oblast of Ukraine. As of 2001, the population is 6,742....
, Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
Skulen
Skulen (Hasidic dynasty)

The Skulen Hasidic dynasty was founded by Rav Eliezer Zusia Portugal. It is now headed by his son, R' Yisroel Avrohom Portugal. Name is originated from Sculeni , a town in Bessarabia where Rabbi Eliezer Zusye was born....
 
Yisroel Avrohom Portugal
Yisroel Avrohom Portugal

Yisroel Avrohom Portugal son of Rabbi Eliezer Zusia Portugal is the Rebbe of Skulen in Brooklyn, New York.He lives primarily in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn but spends some time including about half of the Jewish holidays in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where his father lived....
Eliezer Zusia Portugal
Eliezer Zusia Portugal

Grand Rabbi Eliezer Zusia Portugal , the first Skulen Rebbe, was revered by his followers in Russia, Romania and the United States for his personal warmth and his care for hundreds of Jewish youth and war orphans....
 (1898-1982)
Borough Park, Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
??, Bessarabia
Bessarabia

Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic entity in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west....
Spinka
Spinka (Hasidic dynasty)

Spinka is the name of a Hasidic group within Orthodox Judaism. The group originated in a town called Sap?nta , Maramures, Romania, near the Hungary border....
severalJoseph Meir Weiss (1838-1909)Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordering Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and Bushwick, Brooklyn....
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 
Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak

File:Location_bneibrak.pngFile:800px-Ponivez1.jpegBnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Gush Dan and Tel Aviv District....
Sapânta
Sapânta

Sap?nta is a commune in Maramures County in northern Romania, 15 kilometers northwest of Sighet and just south of the Tisza River.It is known for its "Merry Cemetery" and was the original home of the Spinka of Hasidic Rebbes....
 and Maramures
Maramures

Maramures may refer to the following:*Maramures, a geographical, historical, and ethno-cultural region in present-day Romania and Ukraine, that occupies the Maramures Depression and Maramures Mountains, a mountain range in North East Carpathian Mountains....
, Austria-Hungary (now in Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
)
StropkovAvrohom Shalom Halberstam IIAvrohom Shalom Halberstam (1856-1940)Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
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Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak

File:Location_bneibrak.pngFile:800px-Ponivez1.jpegBnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Gush Dan and Tel Aviv District....
 
Ramle
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordering Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and Bushwick, Brooklyn....
Stropkov
Stropkov

Stropkov is a town in Stropkov District, Pre?ov Region, Slovakia....
, Slovakia
Slovakia

Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
Zvhil (See also Zvhil-Mezbuz
Mezhbizh (Hasidic dynasty)

Mezhbizh is the name of the town of Medzhybizh in the present Ukraine which is significant as both the source of a Hasidic dynasty that bears its name and as a symbolic name for the roots of Hasidic Judaism....
)
Avraham Goldman;
Shlomo Goldman
Shlomo Goldman

Shlomo Goldman, also known as the Zvhil-Sanzer rebbe, is the Sanz-Klausenburger Grand Rabbi of Union City, New Jersey, New Jersey, where he resides and is rav of the Klausenberg er community there....
;
Yitzhak Aharon Korff
Moshe of Zvhil (died 1831)Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
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Union City, New Jersey
Union City, New Jersey

Union City is a City in Hudson County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. According to the United States 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 67,088, living on a land area of 3.28 km? ....
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Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
Zvyahel, Volhynia
Volhynia

File:Luchesk.JPGVolhynia, Volynia, or Volyn is a historic region in western Ukraine located between the rivers Pripyat River and Western Bug, to the north of Galicia and Podolia....


Other dynasties


Many of these dynasties have presently few or no devotees due to most of the Hasidic groups being destroyed during the Holocaust, 1939–1945. Other communities are flourishing and have growing Hasidic sects. There are many dynasties whose followers number around five to fifteen people, and are not listed here.

A

  • Alesk (Oles'k, or Oles'ko, Ukraine
    Ukraine

    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
    )
  • Anipoli from Annopol
    Annopol

    Annopol is a small town in south-eastern Poland with 2,679 inhabitants, in Krasnik County. It has been situated in the Lublin Voivodeship previously in Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship ....
  • Apt/Zinkov/Mezhbizh (from Opatów
    Opatów

    Opat?w is a town in Poland, in Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship. It is the capital of Opat?w County. Its population is 7,833 .Tourist attractions include a 12th century Collegiate Church of St....
    )
  • Avritch (from Ovruch
    Ovruch

    Ovruch is a city in the Zhytomyr Oblast of northern Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Ovrutsky Raion . The current estimated population is around 17,000 ....
    , Ukraine)


B

  • Baitchev
  • Basermin
  • Bender
  • Bertch
  • Bialystok (from Bialystok
    Bialystok

    Bialystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the second-densely populated city of the country. It is located near Poland's border with Belarus and is the capital of the Podlachia region....
    )
  • Bielgory
  • Bikovsk
    Bobov (Hasidic dynasty)

    Bobov, is a Hasidic Judaism group within Haredi Judaism originating in Bobowa, Galicia in Southern Poland and now headquartered in the neighborhood of Borough Park in Brooklyn, New York....
     (from Bikofsk
    Bukowsko

    Bukowsko is a village in Sanok County, Lesser Poland in the Pog?rze Bukowskie mountains, parish in loco, located near the towns of Medzilaborce and Palota ....
    )
  • Binding (From Elbing/Elblag
    Elblag

    Elblag is a city in northern Poland with 127,892 inhabitants . It is the capital of Elblag County and has been assigned to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since 1999....
    , Poland)
  • Bialzobreg
  • Bluzhev (from Blazowa
    Blazowa

    Blazowa [] - town in Rzesz?w County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 2,121 inhabitants ....
    , Galicia now Poland)
  • Bohush (from Bohushi
    Bohushi

    Bohushi is a village near Berezne, Tynne, south of Sarny and Klesiv, in the Bereznivs'kyy rayon, Rivnens'ka oblast', Volhynia, Ukraine....
    , Ukraine)
  • Bonia
    Bonia

    Bonia is a genus of bamboo....
  • Boslover
  • Botoshan
  • Brod
    Brody

    Brody is a city in the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Brodivskyi Raion , and is located in the valley of the upper Styr, approximately 90 kilometres northeast of the oblast capital, Lviv....
  • Brisdovitz (Brudzowice
    Brudzowice

    Brudzowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Siewierz, within Bedzin County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Siewierz, north of Bedzin, and north-east of the regional capital Katowice....
    ?)
  • Bucharest (from Bucuresti
    Bucharest

    Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the D?mbovita River....
    )
  • Burshtin
    Burshtin (Hasidic dynasty)

    Burshtin is a Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties presently headed by Grand Rabbi David Eichenstein, the Burshteiner Rebbe#Hasidic rebbes....
      (from Burshtyn
    Burshtyn

    Burshtyn is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine, to the north of Halych.The current estimated population is around 14,700 ....
    )


C

  • Chabad-Bobroisk (from Bobrujsk, Belarus)
  • Chabad-Kapust
    Kapust

    The Kopuster Hasidic dynasty was based on the Chabad school of thought.The first three Rebbes of Chabad were Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Dovber Schneuri, and Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, also known as the "Tzemach Tzedek"....
  • Chabad-Liadi
  • Chabad-Nezhin
  • Chabad-Strashelye
  • Chadusha
  • Chazanow
  • Chernovitz (from Chernivtsi
    Chernivtsi

    Chernivtsi is the Capital of Chernivtsi Oblast in western Ukraine. The city lies in the historic Bukovina region of Ukraine and is situated on the Prut, a tributary of the Danube....
    )
  • Cieszanow
    Cieszanów

    Cieszan?w [] is a town in Lubacz?w County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland. It has a population of 1,916 .In 1921 there were 929 Jews in Cieszan?w....
  • Czortkow
    Chortkov (Hasidic dynasty)

    Chortkov is a Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties that originated in Chortkiv, present-day Ukraine. It had a large following before the Second World War, but most of its adherents perished in the Holocaust....
     (from Chortkiv
    Chortkiv

    Chortkiv is a city in the Ternopil oblast in western Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Chortkivsky Raion . Population: 29,057 . Located on the Seret River, in the northern part of Eastern Galicia Podilia and is situated in the historic region of Galicia ....
    )
  • Chust (from Khust
    Khust

    Khust is a city located on the Khustets River in the Zakarpattia oblast in western Ukraine. It is near the confluence of the Tisza and Rika Rivers....
    )
  • Cleveland
    Nadvorna (Hasidic dynasty)

    Nadvorna is a Hasidic rabbinical dynasty within Orthodox Judaism. The dynasty derives its name from the town of Nadvirna, known in Ukrainian as Nadvirna....
  • Cracow (from Kraków
    Kraków

    Krak?w , in English also spelled Krakow or Cracow , is one of the largest and oldest cities in Poland, with a population of 756,336 in 2007 ....
    )


D

  • Deyzh from Dej
    Dej

    Dej is a city in northwestern Romania, 60 km north of Cluj-Napoca, in Cluj County. It lies where the Somesul Mic River meets the river Somesul Mare River....
    , Romania
  • Debrecen (from Debrecen
    Debrecen

    Debrecen , , is the second largest city in Hungary after Budapest. Debrecen is the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain Regions of Hungary and the capital of Hajd?-Bihar county....
    )
  • Dinev (from Dynów
    Dynów

    Dyn?w [] is a town in Rzesz?w County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 6,058 ....
    , north of Sanok
    Sanok

    Sanok [] , part of The Land of Sanok , is a town in south-eastern Poland with 39,110 inhabitants, as of 30.06.2008.Sanok is situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship ; previously, it was in Krosno Voivodship and in Ruthenian Voivodeship , which was part of the :pl:Malopolska ....
    )
  • Dobromil (from Dobromyl
    Dobromyl

    Dobromyl is a city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It is located at around , some 5 kilometers to the border with Poland. Population: 5,000 .The settlement was mentioned for the first time in 1374....
    , near Przemysl
    Przemysl

    File:Przemysl - Panorama z Kopca Tatarskiego.jpgFile:Przemysl - Rynek.jpgPrzemysl is a city in south-eastern Poland with 66,756 inhabitants, as of 30.06.2008....
    , Ukrainian-Galicia)
  • Dombrova
    Dombrov (Hasidic dynasty)

    Dombrov is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rebbe Mordechai Dovid Unger . Dombrov is the Yiddish name of Dabrowa Tarnowska, a town in present-day Poland....
     from Dabrowa Tarnowska
    Dabrowa Tarnowska

    Dabrowa Tarnowska [] is a town in Poland, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, about 20 kilometers north of Tarn?w. It is the capital of Dabrowa County....
    , Galicia (now Poland)
  • Dorg from Hajdudorog, Hungary
  • Drubitsh (from Drohobych
    Drohobych

    Drohobych is a city located at the confluence of the Tysmenytsia River and Seret River, a tributary of the former, in the Lviv Oblast , in western Ukraine....
    )
  • Dzerka
  • Dzikov (from Tarnobrzeg
    Tarnobrzeg

    Tarnobrzeg [] is a town in south-eastern Poland, on the east bank of the river Vistula, with 49,753 inhabitants, as of 30.06.2008. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship since 1999, it had previously been the capital of Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship ....
    )


E

  • Eihel
  • Eisysky (from Eišiškes
    Eišiškes

    Ei?i?kes is a city in southeastern Lithuania on the border with Belarus. It is situated on a small group of hills, surrounded by marshy valley of Verseka and Dumble Rivers....
    , Lithuania
    Lithuania

    Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
  • Erlau
    Erlau

    Erlau is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen in Saxony in Germany....
     (from Eger/Erlau
    Eger

    Eger is a city in northern Hungary, the county seat of Heves , east of the Matra . Eger is best known for its Castle of Eger, thermal baths, historic buildings , and red and white wines....
    , Hungary)
  • Etched


F

  • Faltichan (from Falticeni
    Falticeni

    Falticeni is a city in Suceava County, Romania, capital of the former Baia County . As of 2003 the population is 28,899, and the city covers an area of 28,76 km?, of which 25% are orchards and lakes....
    , Romania)
  • Frankfurt


G

  • Gorlitz
  • Gostynin (from Gostynin
    Gostynin

    Gostynin is a town in Central Poland with 19,414 inhabitants . It has been situated in both the Masovian Voivodship since 1999 and was previously in the Plock Voivodship from 1975 to 1998....
    , Poland)
  • Gvodzitz (from Hvizdets')


H

  • Hornsteipel (from Hornostaypil', near Chernobyl
    Chernobyl

    Chernobyl , or Chornobyl , was a city in northern Ukraine, in the Kyiv Oblast near the border with Belarus.The city was evacuated in 1986 due to the Chernobyl disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which is located 14.5 kilometers north-northwest....
    )
  • Hovnir
  • Husiatyn
    Husiatyn (Hasidic dynasty)

    Husiatyn is the name of a Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties, whose founder was a scion of the Ruzhin dynasty. Husiatyn is located in present-day Ukraine....


I

  • Izhbitsa
    Izhbitsa (Hasidic dynasty)

    Izhbitsa-Radzin is the name of a Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties founded by Rebbe#Hasidic rebbes Mordechai Yosef Leiner, author of Mei Hashiloach....
     (from Izbica
    Izbica

    Izbica is a village in Krasnystaw County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Izbica. It lies approximately south of Krasnystaw and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....
    /Izbica Kujawska
    Izbica Kujawska

    Izbica Kujawska [] is a town in central Poland with 2,808 inhabitants . It is situated in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship , having previously been in Wloclawek Voivodeship ....
    )


K

  • Kaliv (from Nagykálló
    Nagykálló

    Nagyk?ll? is a small town in Szabolcs-Szatm?r-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. Before World War II it belonged to Szabolcs county....
    )
  • Kaminka
  • Kaminetz
  • Kunskvola (from Konskowola
    Konskowola

    Konskowola is a village in southeastern Poland, located between Pulawy and Lublin, near Kur?w, on the Kur?wka River. It is the capital of a separate commune within Pulawy County and Lublin Voivodeship, called Gmina Konskowola....
    , Poland)
  • Karlihaz
  • Kashou
    Kashou (Hasidic dynasty)

    Kasho is a hasidic dynasty lead today by Grand Rabbi Eleizer Chaim Blum. Kasho institutions are presently located Williamsburg, Monsey, and Bedford Hills, New York....
  • Kerestir
    Kerestir (Hasidic dynasty)

    Kerestir is a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rebbe Yeshayah Steiner . Kerestir is the Yiddish name of Bodrogkeresztur, a town in Hungary....
     (from Bodrogkeresztur
    Bodrogkeresztúr

    Bodrogkereszt?r is a village in Borsod-Aba?j-Zempl?n county, Hungary.External links ...
    , Hungary)
  • Khentshin (from Checiny
    Checiny

    Checiny is a town in Kielce County, Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,252 inhabitants .The town is first mentioned in historical documents from 1275....
    , Poland)
  • Kielce (from Kielce
    Kielce

    Kielce is a city in central Poland with 202,609 inhabitants . It is also the capital city of the Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship since 1999, previously in Kielce Voivodeship ....
    )
  • Kojdanov (from Kojdanov, Belarus)
  • Komarno (from Komarno
    Komárno

    Kom?rno is a town in Slovakia at the Danube and the V?h rivers. Kom?rno is the larger part of the former town of the Kingdom of Hungary situated on both banks of the Danube....
    , Ukraine)
  • Kopyczynitz (from Kopychyntsi
    Kopychyntsi

    Kopychyntsi - Kopychentsi is a small town in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It has a population of 7,036 ....
    , Ukraine)
  • Korets (from Korec)
  • Koson
  • Kosov
    Kosov (Hasidic dynasty)

    Kosov is the name of a Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties founded by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager of Kosiv, a town in Galicia , presently in Ukraine....
     (from Kosiv
    Kosiv

    Kosiv is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Kosivsky Raion .Initially a small Hutsul settlement with a remnants of a small castle destroyed by the Turks....
    , Ukraine )
  • Kotsk
    Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

    Rabbi Menachem Mendel Morgensztern of Kock, better known as the Kotzker Rebbe was a Hasidic Judaism leader. Born to a non-Hasidic family in Goraj, Lublin Voivodeship near Lublin, Poland, he became attracted to Hasidim in his youth....
     (from Kock
    Kock

    Kock is a town in eastern Poland, about 45 km north of Lublin and 120 km south-east of Warsaw. It lies in Lublin Voivodeship, in Lubart?w County....
    , Poland)
  • Kozlov
  • Kozhnitz
    Kozhnitz (Hasidic dynasty)

    Kozhnitz is the name of a Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties founded by Rebbe#Hasidic rebbes Yisroel Hopsztajn, known as the Kozhnitser Maggid....
     from Kozienice
    Kozienice

    Kozienice is a town in central Poland with 21,500 inhabitants . It is the capital of Powiat of Kozienice ....
  • Krasna
  • Krula
    Spinka (Hasidic dynasty)

    Spinka is the name of a Hasidic group within Orthodox Judaism. The group originated in a town called Sap?nta , Maramures, Romania, near the Hungary border....
  • Kutna (Hasidic dynasty)
  • Kutznitz
  • Kuzmir
    Kuzmir (Hasidic dynasty)

    Kuzmir is the name of a Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties founded by Rebbe Yechezkel Taub. Kuzmir is the Yiddish language name of Kazimierz Dolny, a town in present-day Poland....
     (from Kazimierz Dolny
    Kazimierz Dolny

    Kazimierz Dolny [] is a small town in eastern Poland, on the right bank of the Vistula river in Pulawy County, Lublin Voivodeship.It is a considerable tourist attraction as one of the most beautifully situated little towns in Poland....
    , near Warsaw)


L

  • Lancut (from Lancut
    Lancut

    Lancut [] is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 18,004 inhabitants, as of 30.06.2008. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship , it is the Capital of Lancut County....
    , Poland)
  • Lebina
  • Lelov
    Lelov (Hasidic dynasty)

    Lelov is the name of a Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties which traces its origins to Rabbi Dovid of Lel?w, Poland.The Lelover dynasty migrated from Poland to Jerusalem when Rabbi Dovid's son, Rabbi Moshe Biderman , moved there in the last year of his life....
     (from Lelów
    Lelów

    Lel?w is a village in Czestochowa County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Lel?w. It lies on the Bialka River, approximately east of Czestochowa and north-east of the regional capital Katowice....
    , Poland)
  • Lechovitch (from Lyakohvichi, Belarus)
  • Leipnik (Hasidic dynasty) (from Lipník nad Becvou
    Lipník nad Becvou

    Lipn?k nad Becvou is a small town located in the Olomouc Region, in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. The nearest larger towns are Prerov and Hranice , approximately ten to twelve kilometers distant....
    , Germ. Leipnik)
  • Leipzig
  • Linitz
  • Liske
    Liske (Hasidic dynasty)

    Liske is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Friedman. It takes its name from the Yiddish name for Olaszliszka, a village in Borsod-Aba?j-Zempl?n county, Hungary....
  • Lizhensk (from Lezajsk
    Lezajsk

    Lezajsk [] is a town in southeastern Poland with 14,127 inhabitants .Lezajsk is famed for its Bernadine basilica and monastery, built by the architect Antonio Pellacini....
    , Poland)
  • Leva
  • Liozna
  • Lublin
    Lublin (Hasidic dynasty)

    Lublin is the name of a Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties founded by Rebbe Yehudo Leib Eiger of Lublin, a town in Poland....
     (from Lublin
    Lublin

    Lublin is the largest city in Poland east of the Vistula, and the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 355,954 . It is List of cities and towns in Poland....
    , Poland)
  • Lutsk (from Lutsk
    Lutsk

    Lutsk is a city located by the Styr River in north-western Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Volyn Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Lutsky Raion within the oblast....
    )


M

  • Madyer
  • Malachim
  • Margareten (from Margareten
    Margareten

    Margareten is the fifth district of Vienna . It is near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850, but borders changed later....
     Sankt Margareten im Burgenland?)
  • Mattesdorf (from Mattersdorf
    Mattersdorf

    Mattersdorf may refer to:* Mattersburg, a town in Austria formerly known as Mattersdorf* Mattersdorf , a Jerusalem neighborhood* German name of Vratislavice, Czech Republic...
    (Mattersburg
    Mattersburg

    Mattersburg is a town in Burgenland, Austria. It is the administrative center of the District of Mattersburg and home to a Austrian Bundesliga football team, SV Mattersburg....
    , Burgenland)? cf.Kiryat Mattersdorf
    Kiryat Mattersdorf

    Mattersdorf is a Haredi neighborbood of Jerusalem, located on the northern edge of the mountain plateau on which the central part of Jerusalem lies....
    )
  • Mezhbizh
    Mezhbizh (Hasidic dynasty)

    Mezhbizh is the name of the town of Medzhybizh in the present Ukraine which is significant as both the source of a Hasidic dynasty that bears its name and as a symbolic name for the roots of Hasidic Judaism....
     (from Medzhybizh
    Medzhybizh

    Medzhybizh, previously known as Mezhybozhe, population 1731, is a Urban-type settlement in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast of western Ukraine. It is located in the Letychivsky Raion , 25 kilometres from the Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine on the main highway between Khmelnytskyi and Vinnytsia at the confluence of the Southern Buh and Buzhok rivers....
    ), Ukraine; Also see Apter Rov
  • Mir (from Mir
    Mir

    Mir was a Soviet Union orbital station. Mir was the world's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space, and the first 'third generation' type space station, constructed over a number of years with a Space station#Modular....
    )
  • Miskolc (from Miskolc
    Miskolc

    Miskolc is a city in North-East Hungary, mainly with heavy industrial background. With a population close to 180,000 Miskolc is the third-largest city of Hungary It is also the county capital of Borsod-Aba?j-Zempl?n and the Regions of Hungary centre of Northern Hungary....
    )
  • Mogelnitz from Mogelnica
  • Manestrishtze


N

  • Nadvorna
    Nadvorna (Hasidic dynasty)

    Nadvorna is a Hasidic rabbinical dynasty within Orthodox Judaism. The dynasty derives its name from the town of Nadvirna, known in Ukrainian as Nadvirna....
  • Narol
    Narol (Hasidic dynasty)

    Narol is a dynasty of Hasidic Judaism rebbes originally based in the village of Narol, W. Galicia .The Naroler dynasty was founded by Rabbi Yaakov Reinman , who served as rabbi of Radichow, Kozowa and Holishits before being appointed to the rabbinate of Narol....
  • Nadferli
  • Neshchiz
  • Nikolsburg (from Mikulov/Nikolsburg
    Mikulov

    Mikulov is a town in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic with a population of 7,608 . It is located directly on the border with Lower Austria....
    )
  • Nitra (from Nitra/Nyitra
    Nitra

    Nitra is a city in western Slovakia, situated at the foot of Zobor Mountain in the Nitra River valley. With a population of 85,000, it is the fourth largest city in Slovakia....
    )


O

  • Ostrof
  • Ozherov
    Osrov-Henzin (Hasidic dynasty)

    The Ozerov Hasidic dynasty is a Hasidic Judaism group that began in 1827 when Rabbi Yehudah Leib Epstein, Rabbi of Ozar?w in Poland since 1811, assumed leadership of his Hasidim ....
     (from Ozarów
    Ozarów

    Ozar?w is a town in Poland, in Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship, in Powiat of Opat?w . It has 4,906 inhabitants and its largest employer is a large cement factory nearby....
    , Poland)


P

  • Pashkan
  • Philadelphia
  • Piasetzne
    Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piasetzno

    Kalonymus Kalman Shapira , was the Rebbe of Piaseczno, Poland, who authored a number of works and was murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust....
  • Pietrokov (from Piotrków)
  • Pilts (from Pilica
    Pilica

    Pilica is a river in central Poland, a longest left tributary of the Vistula river, with a length of 319 kilometres and the basin area of 9,273 sq....
    )
  • Pinsk (from Pinsk
    Pinsk

    Pinsk , a town in Belarus, in the Polesia region, traversed by the river Pripyat River, at the confluence of the Strumen River and Pina rivers. The region is known as the Pinsk Marshes....
    )
  • Pintchiv
  • Pistin
  • Pishkivitcha
  • Pittsburgh
    Pittsburg (Hasidic dynasty)

    Pittsburgh, Israel is a Hasidic dynasty led by Grand Rabbi Mordechai Yissachar Ber Leifer of Pittsburgh and concentrated in Ashdod, a city on the Mediterranean Sea coast of Israel....
  • Porisov
    Porisov

    Parys?w is a village in Garwolin County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Parys?w. It lies approximately north-east of Garwolin and south-east of Warsaw....
     (from :pl:Parysów)
  • Polonoye (from Polonne
    Polonne

    Polonne is a city on the Khomora River in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the Capital of the Polonskyi Raion , and is located at around ....
     (Polonnoye), Volhynia)
  • Poltishen
  • Premishlan
    Premishlan

    Premishlan is a Hasidic dynasty. It was founded by Grand Rabbi Meir Hagadol of PremishlanGrand Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, founder of HasidismThe Great Grand Rabbi Meir Hagadol of Premishlan Premishlan , disciple of the Baal Shem Tov...
  • Pshemish (from Przemysl
    Przemysl

    File:Przemysl - Panorama z Kopca Tatarskiego.jpgFile:Przemysl - Rynek.jpgPrzemysl is a city in south-eastern Poland with 66,756 inhabitants, as of 30.06.2008....
    )
  • Pshevorsk
  • Pshiskhe (from Przysucha
    Przysucha

    Przysucha [] is a town in Poland. Located in the Masovian Voivodeship, about 100 km southwest of Warsaw, it is the capital of Przysucha County....
    )


R

  • Radomsk (from Radomsko
    Radomsko

    Radomsko [] is a town in central Poland with 50,618 inhabitants . It is situated in the L?dz Voivodeship , having previously been in Piotrk?w Voivodeship ....
    )
  • Radorztz
  • Radoschitz (from Radoszyce)
  • Radvil
  • Radzyn
    Radzyn

    There are two cities in Poland known as Radzyn:* Radzyn Chelminski, in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship* Radzyn Podlaski, in the Lublin Voivodship...
  • Ratzfert (from Klausenberg, in Brazil / from Ratzfert/Újfehértó
    Újfehértó

    ?jfeh?rt? is a small town in Szabolcs-Szatm?r-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary....
    )
  • Radzin (Radzyn
    Radzyn

    There are two cities in Poland known as Radzyn:* Radzyn Chelminski, in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship* Radzyn Podlaski, in the Lublin Voivodship...
    )
  • Rimenov (from Rymanów
    Rymanów

    Ryman?w [] is a town of 3,585 inhabitants . in Poland's Subcarpathian Voivodeship. It is a capital of a separate gmina within the powiat of Krosno....
    )
  • Ribnitz (from Rybnitsa, Moldova
    Moldova

    Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south....
     or Transnistria
    Transnistria

    Transnistria, also known as Trans-Dniester, Transdniestria, and Pridnestrovie is a disputed region in southeast Europe. Since its declaration of independence in 1990, followed by the War of Transnistria in 1992, it is governed by the Unrecognized states Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic , which claims the left bank...
    )
  • Roman (Hasidic dynasty) (from Roman
    Roman, Romania

    Roman is a mid-sized city in central Moldavia, a region of Romania. It is located 46 km east of Piatra Neamt, in the Neamt County at the confluence of Siret and Moldova rivers....
    , Romania)
  • Ropshitz (from Ropczyce
    Ropczyce

    Ropczyce [] is a town in Subcarpathian Voivodeship in south-eastern Poland, situated in the Valley the Wielopolka River and is inhabited by 15,098 people . It is the county seat of Ropczyce-Sedzisz?w County....
    )
  • Ruzhin
    Ruzhin (Hasidic dynasty)

    The Ruzhin Hasidic Judaism dynasty was founded by Rabbi Yisroel Friedman of Ruzhyn, . Today, Ruzhyn is an urban-type settlement in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine....
     (from Ruzhyn
    Ruzhyn

    Ruzhyn is an urban-type settlement in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine....
    )
  • Rzeszow (Rzeszów
    Rzeszów

    Rzesz?w is a city in south-eastern Poland with a population of 171,330 inhabitants, as of 30.06.2008. It was granted a town charter in 1354, the capital and largest city of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship , previously of Rzesz?w Voivodeship ....
    , Galicia)


S

  • Sadovna
  • Sanz-Grybov
  • Sanz-Klausenburg
  • Sambur (from Sambir
    Sambir

    Sambir is a city in the Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine, close to the border with Poland. Serving as the Capital city of the Sambirsky Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast....
    )
  • Sadiger (from Sadagóra, Bukovina)
  • Sasregen
    Sasregen (Hasidic dynasty)

    Sasregen is a Hasidic dynasty from Reghin , Transylvania, Romania. Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Rubin is the present Sasregener Rebbe in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, NY....
     (from Szászrégen/Reghin
    Reghin

    Reghin is a city and Municipalities of Romania in Mures County county in Romania, on the Mures River in Transylvania. It is the place of origin for the Sasregen Hasidic Judaism Jewish dynasty....
    )
  • Sarderhel
  • Sassov
  • Savran
    Moshe Zvi of Savran

    Moshe Zvi Giterman of Savran , the Savraner Rebbe, was an influential Hasidic Rebbe in Ukraine whose following numbered in the thousands....
  • Senta
    Senta

    Senta is a town and municipality on the bank of the Tisa river in the Vojvodina province, Serbia. Although geographically located in Backa, it is part of the North Banat District....
     Serbia
  • Seret
    Seret (Hasidic dynasty)

    Seret or Sereter Hasidim were a group of Hasidic Judaism Jew that existed in the town of Siret and the surrounding area in Bukovina during the late nineteenth century until World War II....
     (from Bukovina)
  • Shedlitz
  • Shepetivka from Shepetivka
    Shepetivka

    Shepetivka is a city located on the Huska River in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast of Western Ukraine. The city's population is 48,212 . Shepetivka is a city of oblast subordinance, and the Capital of Shepetivskyi Raion ....
    , Ukraine
  • Shotz (from Suceava
    Suceava

    Suceava is the capital city of the Suceava County, Bukovina, northeastern Romania....
    , Moldavia
    Moldavia

    Moldavia is a geographic and historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester river....
    )
  • Shidlovtza
    Biala (Hasidic dynasty)

    The Biala Hasidic Judaism List of Hasidic dynasties originated from Poland. The Rebbe#Hasidic rebbe of Biala are descended from Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Rabinowicz, known as the Yid Hakodosh ....
     (from Szydlowiec
    Szydlowiec

    Szydlowiec [] is a town in Szydlowiec County, Mazovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 15,243 inhabitants . It is the seat of Szydlowiec Commune . Previously, from 1975 to 1998, it was in the Radom Voivodeship....
    , Poland)


  • Shinova from Sieniawa
    Sieniawa

    Sieniawa [] is a town in southeastern Poland. It had a population of 2,127 inhabitants . Since 1999, Sieniawa has been part of Subcarpathian Voivodeship....
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yechezkel_Shraga_Halberstam


  • Shpikov (from Shpykiv
    Shpykiv

    Shpykiv is an Subdivisions of Ukraine in the Tulchynsyy Raion It formerly had a significant Jews community, which numbered 1875 in 1900....
    , Ukraine)
  • Shpola (from Shpola
    Shpola

    Shpola is a city located in the Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Shpoliansky Raion , and is situated at ....
    )
  • Shtefanesht
    Shtefanesht (Hasidic dynasty)

    After the passing of Rabbi Yisroel Friedman of Ruzhin in 1851, his fourth son, Menachem Nuchem Friedman, born in 1823, settled in the town of Stefanesti, Botosani, Romania, and subsequently founded the Shtefanesht Hasidic dynasty....
     (from Stefanesti, Moldavia
    Moldavia

    Moldavia is a geographic and historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester river....
    )
  • Siget (Sighetu-Marmatiei/Máramarossziget, Máramaros)
  • Skulen
    Skulen (Hasidic dynasty)

    The Skulen Hasidic dynasty was founded by Rav Eliezer Zusia Portugal. It is now headed by his son, R' Yisroel Avrohom Portugal. Name is originated from Sculeni , a town in Bessarabia where Rabbi Eliezer Zusye was born....
  • Sochatchov (from Sochaczew
    Sochaczew

    Sochaczew [] is a town in central Poland, with 38,300 inhabitants .Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship , previously in Skierniewice Voivodeship ....
    )
  • Sokalower
  • Stanislav
  • Steppen
  • Stichin
  • Stolin (from Stolyn, Belarus)
  • Stretin
  • Strikov (from Stryjkow)
  • Strizov
  • Sudylkov
  • Sulitz
    Sulitz (Hasidic dynasty)

    Sulitz is a Hasidic dynasty originating in Hungary. The present Rebbe of Sulitz is Rabbi Shmuel Shmelka Rubin. His synagogue is in Far Rockaway, Queens, NY....
     (from Hungary)


T

  • Talno
  • Tank
    Tank

    A tank is a Continuous track, armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility and Military tactics Offensive and defence capabilities....
     (Eastern Europe)
  • Tartikov
  • Tatsh
    Tatsh

    Tatch are members of the tatshe dynasty that traces its roots to Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum , Rabbi of S?toralja?jhely in Hungary. Himself an adherent of the Polish Hasidic leader Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin , Rabbi Teitelbaum was instrumental in bringing Hasidic Judaism to Hungary....
  • Temishvar (from Temesvár)
  • Toldos Aharon
    Shomer Emunim (Hasidic dynasty)

    Shomer Emunim is a devout, insular Hasidic Judaism sect. It was founded in the 20th century by Rabbi Arele Roth. Based in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, its dress code includes the traditional Jerusalemite white yarmulke and gold-coloured bekishe and requires married women to cover their hair without wearing wigs....
  • Toldos Avraham Yitzchok
    Shomer Emunim (Hasidic dynasty)

    Shomer Emunim is a devout, insular Hasidic Judaism sect. It was founded in the 20th century by Rabbi Arele Roth. Based in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, its dress code includes the traditional Jerusalemite white yarmulke and gold-coloured bekishe and requires married women to cover their hair without wearing wigs....
  • Toltchav
  • Tosh
    Tosh (Hasidic dynasty)

    Tosh is a Hasidic dynasty originating in Nyirtass, Hungary. Today it is based in Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada, outside of Boisbriand, a suburb of Montreal....
  • Trisk from Turisk
  • Tseshenov from Cieszanow
    Cieszanów

    Cieszan?w [] is a town in Lubacz?w County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland. It has a population of 1,916 .In 1921 there were 929 Jews in Cieszan?w....
    , Galicia
  • Tshokava
  • Tzanz
  • Tzehlim


U

  • Ujhel (from Újhely
    Sátoraljaújhely

    S?toralja?jhely is a town located in Borsod-Aba?j-Zempl?n county in northern Hungary near the Slovakia border. It is east from the county capital Miskolc....
    )
  • Ungvar (from Ungvár)
  • Unsdorf
  • Ushpitzin


V

  • Vasloi
    Vasloi (Hasidic dynasty)

    Vasloi was a Hasidism dynasty centered in Vaslui, Romania, and founded by Rabbi Shalom Halpern, a grandson of Rabbi Yisroel Friedman of Ruzhyn ....
     (from Vaslui
    Vaslui

    Vaslui is a Municipalities of Romania in Vaslui County, Romania....
    )
  • Vien
    Vien (Hasidic dynasty)

    Vien ????? is a hasidic group originating in present-day Vienna. The name of their congragaion is "Kehal Adas Yereim Vien" . Vien is unique in the respect that they are the only Chasidus that follows the Ashkenaz nusach in Davening ....
     (from Wien/Vienna
    Vienna

    Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
    )
  • Voidislav (from Wodzislaw, Poland)
  • Volova
  • Vurka from Warka
    Warka

    Warka [] is a town in central Poland, located on the left bank of Pilica river , with 11,035 inhabitants . It has been situated in Gr?jec County, in Masovian Voivodeship, since 1999; previously it was in Radom Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998....
    , Poland
  • Vulkaner


Y

  • Yeruslav (from Jaroslau/Ivano-Frankivs'k)
  • Yoka
  • Yommer


Z

  • Zablitover (Zabludów
    Zabludów

    Zablud?w [] is a town in north-eastern Poland.It is situated in the Podlaskie Voivodeship , having previously been in Bialystok Voivodeship ....
    , Poland)
  • Zbarz (from Zbarazh
    Zbarazh

    Zbarazh is a city in the Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Zbarazky Raion , and is located in the historic region of Galicia ....
    )
  • Zeilemer
  • Zhmigrid
    Sanz (Hasidic dynasty)

    The Sanz Hasidic Judaism dynasty was founded by Rabbi Chaim Halberstam Rabbi of Nowy Sacz , author of Divrei Chaim and a son-in-law of Rabbi Boruch Frankel Thumim , Rabbi of Lipn?k nad Becvou , author of Boruch Taam....
     (from Nowy Zmigród
    Nowy Zmigród

    Nowy Zmigr?d, until 1946 Zmigr?d , is a village and rural commune in Jaslo County.It is located in southern Poland, 8 miles WNW of Dukla and 10 miles south of Jaslo....
    , Poland)
  • Zhitomir (from Zhytomyr
    Zhytomyr

    Zhytomyr is a historic city in the North of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Zhytomyr Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Zhytomyr Rayon ....
    )
  • Zibov
  • Zychlin
    Zychlin

    Zychlin [] is a town in Kutno County, Poland, about 50 north of L?dz and 90 km west of Warsaw. It has 9,021 inhabitants ....
  • Zidichov
  • Zinkov
  • Zlatipol
  • Zlotchov (from Zolochiv
    Zolochiv

    Zolochiv is a Urban-type settlement located in the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Zolochivsky Raion .Zolochiv was incorporated as a town on 15 September 1523 by the Poland king Sigismund I the Old....
    )
  • Zolozitz