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Greenwald Family
The Greenwald Rabbinic family was a family which produced several generations of Hungarian rabbis. It traces its roots to Meir Eisenstadt, the Chacham Tzvi, and the Maharal.http://matzav.com/todays-yahrtzeits-history-1-sivan The Pupa Hasidic dynasty is descended from the Greenwald family. Family members * Moshe Greenwald * Yaakov Yechezkiya Greenwald * Yosef Greenwald * Yaakov Yechezkia Greenwald II Rabbi Yaakov Yehezkiya Grunwald (born April 17, 1948) is an American rebbe, the current leader of the Pupa Hasidic group in the United States. Biography He was born in Antwerp, the second son of Yosef Greenwald (the last rabbi of Papa, Hunga ... * Eliezer David Greenwald References {{Reflist Jewish-Hungarian families Hungarian Orthodox rabbis Hasidic rabbis in Europe 19th-century Hungarian rabbis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Jews
The history of the Jews in Hungary dates back to at least the Kingdom of Hungary, with some records even predating the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895 CE by over 600 years. Written sources prove that Jewish communities lived in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary and it is even assumed that several sections of the heterogeneous Magyar tribes, Hungarian tribes practiced Judaism. Jewish officials served the king during the early 13th century reign of Andrew II of Hungary, Andrew II. From the second part of the 13th century, the general religious tolerance decreased and Hungary's policies became similar to the treatment of the Jewish population in Western Europe. The Jews of Hungary were fairly well integrated into Hungarian society by the time of the First World War. By the early 20th century, the community had grown to constitute 5% of Hungary's total population and 23% of the population of the capital, Budapest. Jews became prominent in science, the arts and busine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meir Eisenstadt
Meir ben Izsak Eisenstadt ( he, מאיר איזנשטט, ''also'' Meir Ash, c. 1670 in Poznań – 1744 in Eisenstadt) was the author of responsa and other works of rabbinic literature. An authority on Halakha, he was consulted by rabbis from Turkey, Germany and Italy. He is known as the Panim Me'irot (or ''Punim Meirois'' in Yiddish) after his major work called ''Shu"t Panim Me'irot''. He is also known as the Maharam Ash (or Maharam Esh) the Hebrew acronym for "Our Teacher, Rabbi Meir EisenStadt". Biography After serving as a dayan in Posen and rabbi in Szydłowiec, Poland, he went to Germany and settled in Worms where he headed the yeshiva. When Worms was taken by the French in 1701 he moved to Prostějov (german: Prossnitz) as rabbi. From 1711 to 1714 he returned to Szydłowiec but then moved to Eisenstadt (now in Austria) (adopting the name of the town) serving as rabbi of the Seven Communities. Eisenstadt greatly influenced the nature of the community and his yeshiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chacham Tzvi
Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi ( he, צבי אשכנזי; 1656 – May 2, 1718), known as the Chacham Tzvi after his responsa by the same title, served for some time as rabbi of Amsterdam. He was a resolute opponent of the followers of the false messiah, Sabbatai Zevi. He had a chequered career owing to his independence of character. He visited many lands, including England, where he wielded much influence. His responsa are held in high esteem. Early life and education Ashkenazi was born in 1656 in Moravia, most likely in Gross Meseritsch where his father Jacob Wilner was active. He was descended from a well-known family of scholars, a grandson of Ephraim ha-Kohen who in turn was the son-in-law of a grandchild of Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm. He spent most his childhood in Alt-Ofen (now Budapest) where his grandfather served as rabbi. Tutored by his father and grandfather, he later went to Salonica where he attended the school of Eliyahu Kovo and devoted himself to an investig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maharal
Judah Loew ben Bezalel (; between 1512 and 1526 – 17 September 1609), also known as Rabbi Loew ( Löw, Loewe, Löwe or Levai), the Maharal of Prague (), or simply the Maharal (the Hebrew acronym of "''Moreinu ha-Rav Loew''", 'Our Teacher, Rabbi Loew'), was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher who, for most of his life, served as a leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia and Prague in Bohemia. Within the world of Torah and Talmudic scholarship, Loew is known for his works on Jewish philosophy and Jewish mysticism and his work ''Gur Aryeh al HaTorah'', a supercommentary on Rashi's Torah commentary. He is also the subject of a 19th-century legend that he created the Golem of Prague, an animate being fashioned from clay. Early life Loew was probably born in Poznań, Poland,—though Perels lists the birth town mistakenly as Worms in the Holy Roman Empire—to Rabbi Bezalel (Loew), whose family originated from the Rhenish town of Worms. Perels c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pupa (Hasidic Dynasty)
Kehillas Yaakov Pupa (also "Puppa"; Hebrew/Yiddish: קהלת יעקב פאפא) is a Hasidic dynasty, named after the town of its origin (according to the Yiddish name), also known in Hungarian as Pápa. Before World War II, Pupa had an important yeshiva which produced many well-known ultra-Orthodox rabbis in Hungary. The whole community was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and only a few survived. There are no longer any Jews in Pápa. The group is based in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, with branches in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, Monsey, New York, Los Angeles, and Ossining, New York. It is headed by the Pupa Rebbe, who has several thousand followers. Pupa consists of a wide international network of educational institutions, with more than 7,000 students enrolled in its yeshivas, girls schools, summer camps, and kollelim in Williamsburg, Boro Park, Monsey, Westchester, Montreal, Jerusalem, and elsewhere. In Williamsburg, Pupa is seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Greenwald
Moshe Greenwald (1853–1910), also spelled Grunwald, a rabbi in Hungary at the end of the 19th century. He was the rabbi of Chust, Hungary and progenitor of the Pupa Hasidic dynasty through his son Yaakov Yechezkiya. He was also the author of ''Arugas Habosem'', a book of responsa covering halakhic issues. Biography He was the eldest son of Amram Greenwald He studied at the yeshiva of Menachem Katz, a disciple of Hatam Sofer, in Deutschkreutz, now in Austria, with his grandfather Yosef Greenwald, and at the Pressburg Yeshiva under the Ketav Sofer His father died when he was twenty and he worked in timber trading, while continuing his studies. At that time, he married his relative Zissel Gestetner. At the age of twenty-six he began working as a rabbi in the city of Humenné in Hungary (today in Slovakia). In 1887, he became rabbi of the city of Kisvárda in Hungary. Greenwald was originally from a non-hasidic family but as a young man he became a hasid and traveled t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaakov Yechezkiya Greenwald
Ya'akov Yechezkiya Greenwald (Hebrew: יעקב יחזקי' גרינוואלד. Legal name: Jakab Grünwald. Also called the "Vayaged Ya'akov", 1882 – c. 1 March 1941 (2 Adar 5701)) was the rabbi of the Etz Chaim community in Pápa, Hungary, and the ''rosh yeshiva'' there. He was the predecessor of the Pupa Hasidic dynasty. Early life Greenwald was born in Csorna to Moshe Grunwald, rabbi and ''rosh yeshiva'' of Khust, and studied under his father until his marriage in 1900 to his cousin Sara Rivkah Brown. Career In 1906 Greenwald was appointed rabbi of Likov. In 1912 he was appointed rabbi of Deutschkreutz, replacing his uncle Eliezer David Greenwald. In 1924 he became rabbi of Hunyad and headed a yeshiva in the city. In 1929, he became rabbi of Pápa, Hungary. He established a yeshiva there which soon numbered 300 students, and became one of the largest and most important Hungarian yeshivas. Greenwald was a Belz hasid and sent many of his disciples to Belz. Death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yosef Greenwald
Yosef Greenwald ( he, יוסף גרינוואלד 1903 – Brooklyn 1984) was the second Rebbe of the Pupa Hasidic dynasty, and the charismatic leader of all the Pupa Hasidim. Prior to World War II, he was a rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Pápa, Hungary. Greenwald was the son of Rabbi Yaakov Yechezkiah Greenwald of Pupa - author of ''Vayaged Yaakov'' (1882-1941), son of Rabbi Moshe Greenwald of Chust - author of ''Arugas HaBosem''. Greenwald was a devoted Belzer Hasid. After the war, he settled in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and established the contemporary Pupa Hasidic movement. He travelled to Belz many times before World War II, and after the war, he made the trip from the United States to Israel to visit Aharon Rokeach, the fourth Rebbe of Belz. Biography Early life Greenwald was born on Wednesday, the 24th of Elul 5663 (16 September 1903), in Brezovica, Hungary. In his youth, he studied Torah in his father's yeshiva in Pápa, Hungary. In 1925, he married Chana, the daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaakov Yechezkia Greenwald II
Rabbi Yaakov Yehezkiya Grunwald (born April 17, 1948) is an American rebbe, the current leader of the Pupa Hasidic group in the United States. Biography He was born in Antwerp, the second son of Yosef Greenwald (the last rabbi of Papa, Hungary before the Holocaust) and his second wife, Miriam. When he was a child the family emigrated to the United States, where his father founded the Pupa hasidic dynasty. He was married to Bracha Frieda. He served as a dayan (rabbinic judge) and posek In Jewish law, a ''Posek'' ( he, פוסק , pl. ''poskim'', ) is a legal scholar who determines the position of ''halakha'', the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities a ... of the Pupa hasidim, and on his father's death 1984 succeeded him as the Pupa rebbe. Most of his followers live in the United States (mainly the state of New York) and Canada, and a few in Israel and London. {{DEFAULTSORT:Greenwald, Yaakov Yech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliezer David Greenwald
Rabbi Eliezer David Greenwald (1867-1928) was a rabbi and head of a yeshiva in the cities of Tzehlim (today Deutschkreutz in Austria), Oberwischau (Upper Vishuvah) and Satu Mare, Satmar in Transylvania. He is known for his book Keren L'David. Brother of Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, author of "Arugat HaBosem". Life He was born in Csorna, Hungary, to Rabbi Amram Greenwald, son of Rabbi Yosef Greenwald, Av Beit Din of Sečovce, Tchechowitz. In his youth, he studied with his brother, the author of Arugat HaBosem. He also studied briefly with Rabbi Shmuel Ehrenfeld, author of "Chatan Sofer". In 1889 he married the daughter of Yaakov Rapaport of Bardejov, Bardeyov. After his marriage, he spent five years in Bardeyov, where he founded and chaired a yeshiva throughout his stay in the city. At the beginning of 1907 he was elected rabbi of the Jewish community of Tzehlim, where he also headed a large yeshiva. In 1912 he moved to serve as Rabbi of Oberwischau, and headed a yeshiva that numbered hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish-Hungarian Families
The history of the Jews in Hungary dates back to at least the Kingdom of Hungary, with some records even predating the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895 CE by over 600 years. Written sources prove that Jewish communities lived in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary and it is even assumed that several sections of the heterogeneous Hungarian tribes practiced Judaism. Jewish officials served the king during the early 13th century reign of Andrew II. From the second part of the 13th century, the general religious tolerance decreased and Hungary's policies became similar to the treatment of the Jewish population in Western Europe. The Jews of Hungary were fairly well integrated into Hungarian society by the time of the First World War. By the early 20th century, the community had grown to constitute 5% of Hungary's total population and 23% of the population of the capital, Budapest. Jews became prominent in science, the arts and business. By 1941, over 17% of Budapest's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Orthodox Rabbis
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