Rabbi Pinchas David Horowitz, (July 15, 1877
or 1876 - November 28, 1941)
was a
Hasidic rebbe
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and the founder of the
Boston
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Hasidic dynasty, one of the first Hasidic courts in America.
Biography
Born in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, he was a paternal descendant of
Zevi Joshua Horowitz, son of
Shmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburg. He was sent as a representative and arbitrator by the Jerusalem community to Russia in an important European rabbinic dispute. The outbreak of World War I prevented his return to
Palestine and in 1915 he went to Boston to collect money for charity (
''tzedakah''). He attracted a small group of followers but soon left Boston for New York.
In 1939 Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz relocated the congregation to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, remaining there until his death on November 28, 1941.
Horowitz's successors were his sons, rabbis Moshe Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe of New York, and
Levi Yitzchok Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe of Boston and
Har Nof, Jerusalem.
References
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Rebbes of Boston
1876 births
1941 deaths
People from Jerusalem
Burials at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives
Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to the United States
Hasidic rabbis in Ottoman Palestine
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