Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam
American rabbi
Died when: 89 years 159 days (1073 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam (January 10, 1905 – June 18, 1994) was an Orthodox rabbi and the founding rebbe of the Sanz-Klausenburg Hasidic dynasty.Halberstam was one of the youngest rebbes in Europe, leading thousands of followers in the town of Klausenburg, Romania, before World War II.
His wife, eleven children and most of his followers were murdered by the Nazis while he was incarcerated in several concentration camps.
After the war, he moved to the United States and later Israel.Halberstam rebuilt Jewish communal life in the displaced persons camps of Western Europe, re-established his dynasty in the United States and Israel, founded a Haredi neighborhood in Israel and a Sanz community in the United States, established a hospital in Israel that followed Jewish law, and started a new family after a second marriage and the birth of seven more children.
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