Divrei Yatziv
Brooklyn (NY)
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Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam
Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam
Also known as The Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe
1905 CE–1994 CE · Hasidic · Rudnik nad Sanem
R. Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam (1905-1994), the Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe, was the founder of the modern Sanz-Klausenburg dynasty and one of the most remarkable rebbe-rebuilders of the post-Holocaust era. Great-grandson of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz, he served as Rav of Klausenburg (Cluj) before the war. Auschwitz and Mühldorf claimed his wife and all eleven of his children. He survived to emerge from the DP camps as the most charismatic of the surviving Hasidic leaders.
He rebuilt the dynasty from zero in Brooklyn and later founded the new Sanz-Klausenburg yeshiva and Hasidic city of Kiryat Sanz in Netanya (1956) and Laniado Hospital. His ten-volume Divrei Yatziv responsa is the standard Sanz-Klausenburg halachic corpus. Married twice after the war; both new families produced sons who now lead the two Sanz-Klausenburg branches (Netanya and Borough Park).
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Stop 1 of 71905Born
Rudnik nad SanemרודניקGalicia (southern Poland) — Sanz-region town
What they did here
Born in Rudnik nad Sanem in 1905 to the Halberstam family, whose lineage traced back to the Sanz dynasty; his boyhood was devoted to Torah learning alongside his rabbinic relatives.
About Rudnik nad Sanem
Rudnik nad Sanem in southern Galicia was the birthplace of R. Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam, founder of the modern Sanz-Klausenburg Hasidic dynasty. The town was part of the broader Sanz-Hasidic region of late-Hapsburg Galicia.
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