Kedushat Tzion
Bobowa (Bobov) · 1967
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Kedushas Tziyon of Bobov
Kedushas Tziyon of Bobov
1874 CE–1941 CE · Hasidic · Bobowa (Bobov)
R. Bentzion Halberstam (1874-1941), the Kedushas Tziyon of Bobov, was the second Bobover Rebbe and the figure who transformed Bobov from a small-town Sanzer-offshoot court into one of the largest Hasidic movements of prewar Galicia. Succeeding his father R. Shlomo Halberstam in 1905, he built the famed Bobov educational network (Mesivta of Bobov, founded 1893 by his father; expanded under his leadership) which served as a model for postwar Hasidic yeshivot. He was murdered by the Nazis at the Yanover forest near Lwów on 4 Av 1941, along with his son R. Moshe Aharon and three sons-in-law. His youngest son R. Shlomo Halberstam (Bobov III) escaped and rebuilt the movement in Brooklyn.
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Bobowa (Bobov)באבובGalicia (southern Poland) — Bobov dynasty origin
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Succeeded his father R. Shlomo as the second Bobover Rebbe in 1905. Murdered at the Yanover forest near Lwów on 4 Av 1941.
About Bobowa (Bobov)
Bobowa (Yiddish Bobov), a small town in southern Galicia, was the seat of the Bobover Hasidic dynasty founded by R. Shlomo Halberstam in 1893. The Bobov yeshiva and beit midrash there grew into one of the largest pre-war Galician Hasidic centers; the community was annihilated in WWII.
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