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Yekusiel Yehuda (Zalmen Leib) Teitelbaum (1911 – 18 May 1944) was
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Yekusiel Yehuda (Zalmen Leib) Teitelbaum (1911 – 18 May 1944) was Chief Rabbi
Chief Rabbi ( he, רב ראשי ''Rav Rashi'') is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities. Since 1911, through a ...
of Sighet/Máramarossziget from 1936–1940 (Romania
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), 1940–1944 (Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
).
Biography
Teitelbaum was the eldest son of RabbiChaim Tzvi Teitelbaum
Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum (December 28, 1879 – January 21, 1926) (''6 shevat 5686'' on the Hebrew calendar), the Sigheter Rebbe, author of ''Atzei Chaim'', was the oldest son of Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum, the ''Kedushas Yom Tov' ...
(''Atzei Chaim'' – d. 1926) and a brother of Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum Moshe Teitelbaum may refer to:
* Moshe Teitelbaum (Ujhel) (1759–1841), Hasidic Rebbe
* Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar)
Moshe (Moses) Teitelbaum (Yiddish: משה טײטלבױם; November 1, 1914 – April 24, 2006) was a Hasidic rebbe and the w ...
. He was born in Máramarossziget, Hungary in 1911. At the age of 14 he was a successor to a long chain of Uhel-Sziget Rebbe
A Rebbe ( yi, רבי, translit=rebe) or Admor ( he, אדמו״ר) is the spiritual leader in the Hasidic movement, and the personalities of its dynasties.Heilman, Samuel"The Rebbe and the Resurgence of Orthodox Judaism."''Religion and Spiritua ...
's.
In his first marriage, he married Ruchel, daughter of his uncle Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum
Joel Teitelbaum ( yi, יואל טייטלבוים, translit=Yoyl Teytlboym, ; 13 January 1887 – 19 August 1979) was the founder and first Grand Rebbe of the Satmar dynasty.
A major figure in the post-war renaissance of Hasidism, he espoused a ...
. Ruchel died after 18 months of marriage and Teitelbaum remarried Gitel Yehudis, the daughter of his other uncle Rabbi Zusha Halberstam son of Rabbi Shalom Eliezer Halberstam of Újfehértó
Újfehértó (Yiddish, german: Ratzfert) is a small town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
History
By 1920, the Jewish population had reached 1,303 people, 11% of the total population. On 17 ...
(Ratzfert).
The Holocaust
In May 1944, he was sent along with the first of four transports of the Jewish Community in Máramarossziget to theAuschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
where he was murdered in the early morning hours of May 18 in the gas chamber
A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or other animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is introduced. Poisonous agents used include hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide.
Histor ...
s, together with his wife and his two children Chaim Tzvi and Ruchel.
Further reading
In 2004 ''Yad Yekusiel'' was published by Joel Rubin about Teitelbaum's life, as well of some of theresponsa
''Responsa'' (plural of Latin , 'answer') comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them. In the modern era, the term is used to describe decisions and rulings made by scholars i ...
that were left from him after the Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...
.
External links
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1911 births 1944 deaths People from Sighetu Marmației Hasidic rabbis in Europe Hungarian Orthodox rabbis Hungarian civilians killed in World War II Hungarian people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp People killed by gas chamber by Nazi Germany Hungarian Jews who died in the Holocaust Teitelbaum family Romanian Orthodox rabbis {{Hasidic-Judaism-stub