Yisrael Taub
Also known as The Divrei Yisrael (Modzitz I)
1849 CE–1920 CE · Hasidic · Modzitz (Modrzyce)
R. Yisrael Taub (1849-1920), the founder of the Modzitz Hasidic dynasty, was one of the most musically gifted figures in Hasidic history — his court is uniquely identified with its musical tradition, the most extensive niggun repertoire in Hasidism. After a near-fatal 1913 surgery (without anesthesia) he reportedly composed the 36-section Ezkera niggun while undergoing the operation. His sefer Divrei Yisrael is a foundational Polish Hasidic work; the Modzitzer niggunim he and his descendants composed are sung across the Hasidic and Litvish worlds today.
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Modzitz (Modrzyce)מאדזיץCentral Poland — Modzitz Hasidic court
What they did here
Established the Modzitz court in Modrzyce (now Dęblin-Modrzyce), Poland in 1889 after the death of his father R. Shmuel Eliyahu of Zwoleń.
About Modzitz (Modrzyce)
Modrzyce (now part of Dęblin) in central Poland was the seat of the Modzitz Hasidic court founded by R. Yisrael Taub in 1889. The court was famous for its extensive niggun repertoire — the largest in Hasidic history — and many of its compositions are sung worldwide today.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Yisrael Taub’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Israel Meir Kagan (Chafetz Chaim)· 1838 CE–1933 CE
- Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv· 1841 CE–1926 CE
- Rabbi Eliezer Gordon· 1841 CE–1910 CE
- Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk (Or Sameach, Meshech Chochmah)· 1843 CE–1926 CE
- Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Hoffman· 1843 CE–1921 CE
- Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky· 1845 CE–1913 CE
- Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horowitz· 1847 CE–1919 CE
- Solomon Schechter (Cairo Genizah; JTS)· 1847 CE–1915 CE
- Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter· 1847 CE–1905 CE
- Shlomo Halberstam (founder of Bobov)· 1847 CE–1905 CE
- Rabbi Meir Atlas· 1848 CE–1926 CE
- R. Raphael Aharon ben Shimon· 1848 CE–1928 CE
- Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld· 1848 CE–1932 CE
- Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel· 1849 CE–1927 CE
- Yitzchak Friedman (Pachad Yitzchak of Boyan)· 1850 CE–1917 CE
- R. Tzvi Hirsch Shapira (Munkacs II)· 1850 CE–1913 CE
- Yihya Qafih· 1850 CE–1931 CE
- Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahana-Shapiro· 1851 CE–1923 CE
- Chaim Soloveitchik (founder of the Brisker derech)· 1853 CE–1918 CE
- Shmuel Bornsztain of Sochatchov· 1855 CE–1926 CE
- Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner· 1856 CE–1924 CE
- Rabbi Yosef Engel· 1858 CE–1919 CE
- Rabbi Dov Moshe Namiat· 1860 CE–1919 CE
- Sholom DovBer Schneersohn (5th Lubavitcher Rebbe)· 1860 CE–1920 CE
Scientists
Buddhist world
Luminaries & Explorers world
Christian world
Hindu world
Rulers world
- Georges Clemenceau· 1841 CE–1929 CE
- Gojong of Korea· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Emperor Meiji· 1852 CE–1912 CE
- Chulalongkorn (Rama V)· 1853 CE–1910 CE
- Yuan Shikai· 1859 CE–1916 CE
- Mehmed V· 1844 CE–1918 CE
- Yaa Asantewaa· 1840 CE–1921 CE
- Theodore Roosevelt· 1858 CE–1919 CE
- Abdulhamid II· 1842 CE–1918 CE
- Guangxu Emperor· 1871 CE–1908 CE
- Woodrow Wilson· 1856 CE–1924 CE
- Menelik II· 1844 CE–1913 CE
- Paul von Hindenburg· 1847 CE–1934 CE
- Quanah Parker· 1845 CE–1911 CE
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