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20-725: At the behest of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam , Klausenburger Rebbe from 1927 to 1994, the movement was split into two separate movements after his death, headed by his two sons. The Sanz-Klausenburger Hasidim are located in Borough Park , New York City , while the Sanzer Hasidim are based in Kiryat Sanz , Netanya , Israel . There are also followings in Los Angeles, California ; Jerusalem ; Stamford Hill , London ; Antwerp ; and Union City, New Jersey , and in

40-528: A Nusach Sefard congregation in Klausenburg , Romania. In 1941, a new law required all Jews living in Hungary to prove that their family had lived in and paid taxes in Hungary back to 1851. Halberstam, his wife, and their eleven children were arrested and brought to Budapest , where the family was separated. He was jailed with a group of leaders who were later sent to Auschwitz , but he was released and

60-602: A Hasidic dynasty. He attracted many followers and students, due to his piety and greatness. Sanz has been succeeded nowadays by the Sanz-Klausenberg , Sanz-Zmigrad , Tshakover (Chokover) Hasidic dynasties, and the Bobov Hasidic dynasties, among others. Halberstam was born in 1793, in Tarnogród , today Poland . His first wife Rochel Feyga was the daughter of Rabbi Boruch Frenkl-Thumim (1760–1828),

80-552: A children's hospital, a geriatric center and a nursing school, serving a regional population of over 450,000. Halberstam died on 18 June 1994, and was buried in Netanya. In his will, he divided leadership of the Sanzer Hasidim between his two sons: his elder son, Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, became the rebbe of Netanya; Samuel David Halberstam became the rebbe of Brooklyn. Chaim Halberstam Chaim Halberstam of Sanz (1793–1876) ( Hebrew : חיים הלברשטאם מצאנז ), known as

100-757: A month after his arrival the Nazis took over Hungary. He was sent to Auschwitz, where his wife and nine of their children who remained with her in Klausenburg had been sent several months earlier. They did not survive. Halberstam was assigned to a work unit in the Warsaw Ghetto and later was sent to the Dachau concentration camp as a slave laborer, and then to the Muldorf Forest, where the Nazis were building an underground airport and missile batteries. In

120-581: The Baal Shem Tov , the founder of Hasidism. The Klausenburger dynasty was founded by Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam in 1927, when he assumed the position of rabbi of Klausenburg , the capital city of Transylvania in western Romania. Halberstam was the great-grandson of Rabbi Chaim of Sanz , founder of the Sanz Hasidic dynasty. Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam grew up in Rudnik , Poland . In

140-539: The Divrei Chaim after the title of his writings, was the rabbi of Sanz ( Polish : Nowy Sącz ), and the founding rebbe of the Sanz dynasty of Hasidic Judaism . Halberstam was a pupil of Rabbi Sholom Rokeach of Belz , Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Heshl Orenstein and Rabbi Naftali Tzvi of Ropshitz . His first rabbinical position was in Rudnik . In 1830 he was appointed as the town rabbi of Sanz, where he founded

160-530: The Hasidic dynasty of Sanz-Klausenburg . Halberstam was born in 1905 in Rudnik , Poland. He was a great-grandson (in the direct male line) of Chaim Halberstam , founder of the Sanz hasidic dynasty. When he was 13 his father, Tzvi Hirsch Halberstam, the rabbi of Rudnik, died. In 1925, Halberstam married his second cousin, Pessel Teitelbaum, the daughter of Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum . In 1930, he became rabbi of

180-710: The Kiryat Sanz neighborhood in Netanya , Israel, and moved there from Brooklyn in 1960. He also established the Kiryat Sanz neighborhood of Jerusalem . In 1968 he founded another Sanz community in Union City, New Jersey , and afterwards divided his time between that community and Netanya. Halberstam established Laniado Hospital , a voluntary, not-for-profit 484-bed hospital in Kiryat Sanz, Netanya. The hospital's first building, an outpatient clinic , opened in 1975. The hospital includes two medical centers,

200-494: The Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. In 1957 he established the Kiryat Sanz neighborhood in the beachside city of Netanya , Israel. He moved to Kiryat Sanz in 1960. In 1968, he founded yet another Sanz community in Union City, New Jersey , and afterwards divided his time between that community and his residence in Netanya. Halberstam died on June 18, 1994, and was buried in Netanya. In his will, he divided leadership of

220-583: The Holocaust about 85% of the community was murdered, including Halberstam's wife and eleven children. He emerged as a leader in the displaced persons camps in Europe as he created a communal survivors organization called She'aris Hapleitah ("the surviving remnant"), which operated religious schools for boys and girls and yeshivas for young men in 19 different DP camps, as well as religious services. In 1947, he emigrated to America and established his court in

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240-699: The Klausenburger Hasidim between his two sons (both born in his second marriage after World War II). His elder son, Zvi Elimelech Halberstam , became the Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe (also called Sanzer Rebbe) of Netanya, and Shmuel Dovid Halberstam became the Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe of Brooklyn. The Rebbe's sons-in-law are: In contrast to the custom among many Rebbes, the Klausenburger Rebbe did not take sons-in-law exclusively from rabbinic families; rather, he chose

260-509: The US, in Borough Park , Williamsburg , Monsey , and Lakewood . The Klausenburger Rebbes are descended from Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz , who was a disciple of Rabbi Naftoli Tzvi of Ropshitz . Rabbi Naftoli was a disciple of Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk author of Noam Elimelech . Rebbe Elimelech was a disciple of Rebbe Dovber , the Maggid (Preacher) of Mezritch , the primary disciple of

280-536: The best students of his yeshiva to marry his daughters. The only exception was Rabbi Shlomo Goldman , an accomplished Torah scholar even in his youth, who is the son of the previous Zhviller Rebbe in Israel. Other prominent figures in Sanz-Klausenburg are: Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam (January 10, 1905 – June 18, 1994) was a rebbe (hereditary rabbinical leader) of

300-511: The death camps and train tracks leading the them, insisting it could have saved millions of Jewish lives. In spring 1946 he went to the United States, where he established his court in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn , New York, in 1947. On Friday, August 22, 1947, he married his second wife, Chaya Nechama Ungar, the daughter of Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Ungar . They had five daughters and two sons. In 1958 Halberstam established

320-570: The family returned to Kolozsvár. On 19 March 1944, the Germans invaded Hungary and Hungarian Jews were confined to ghettos and then deported to the Auschwitz death camp. The Klausenburg ghetto was established on 1 May 1944, and was liquidated via six transports to Auschwitz between late May and early June. Halberstam fled to the town of Nagybánya , where he was conscripted into a forced-labor camp along with 5,000 other Hungarian Jews. About

340-515: The poor and established many organizations to relieve them of their poverty. He was the first Honorary President of Kolel Chibas Yerushalayim . His compassion and generosity was legendary; he literally gave away everything he had for the needy; and went to sleep penniless. During his 46 years as Rabbi of Sanz; that city was transformed into a vibrant center of Hasidism, attracting tens of thousands of followers. Among his many disciples, are counted such leaders as Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Friedlander of Liska ,

360-670: The rabbi of Lipník nad Bečvou ( לייפניק Leipnik ) and author of the work Boruch Taam . They had five sons and three daughters. When she died he then married her sister, who died childless. His third wife was Rechil Devorah Unger, daughter of Rabbi Yechil Tzvi Unger, son of Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger of Dombrov ; they had three sons and four daughters. Halberstam had eight sons and seven daughters. His eight sons were: Halberstam's sons all became famous rebbes (except for Myer Noson, who predeceased him). His seven daughters all married Hasidic leaders. Halberstam died in Sanz, Austria-Hungary (now Poland) in 1876 (25 Nisan 5636). Halberstam

380-608: The spring of 1945 the Germans disbanded the Muldorf camp and sent the inmates on a death march from which the survivors, including Halberstam, were liberated by Allied troops in late April. Halberstam's wife and ten of his children were murdered by the Nazis during World War II. His eldest son survived the war but died of illness in a refugee camp soon after. After Allied liberation, the Klausenberger Rebbe met Dwight D. Eisenhower and criticized Allied failure to bomb

400-402: Was acclaimed by the leading rabbis of his generation as one of the foremost Talmudists , poskim and Kabbalistic authorities of his time, he received queries from Rabbis and communities from all over the world. His responsa , as well as his Torah commentaries, published under the title Divrei Chaim , reflect his Torah greatness, his humility, and his compassionate nature. He was a champion of

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