Yochanan Perlow
Also known as The Karlin-Stoliner Rebbe (Yochanan)
1900 CE–1956 CE · Hasidic · Stolin
R. Yochanan Perlow (1900-1956), Karlin-Stoliner Rebbe, was the last European-born Karlin-Stoliner Rebbe and the figure who transferred the dynasty to American soil. Succeeding his brother R. Avraham Elimelech (murdered by the Nazis in 1942), he escaped Europe via Shanghai and settled in Williamsburg, then Brooklyn's Boro Park. Under his leadership Karlin-Stolin — known for its ecstatic, shouting-style prayer (Karliner davening) — was rebuilt from the few hundred survivors into a robust postwar Hasidic community in Brooklyn, Jerusalem, and Beitar Illit.
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StolinסטוליןPolesia / Belarus — Karlin-Stolin Hasidic court
What they did here
Born in Stolin; served under his uncle R. Avraham Elimelech.
About Stolin
Stolin, a town in Polesia (now western Belarus), became the second seat of the Karlin-Stolin Hasidic dynasty after R. Aharon HaGadol of Karlin's successors moved the court here in the early 19th century. Karlin-Stolin is famous for its ecstatic, shouting prayer style (Karliner davening).
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In the same tradition
Louis Ginzberg, Chaim Heller, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, Mordecai Kaplan, Reuven Grozovsky, Avraham Kalmanowitz, Aharon Kotler, Moshe Feinstein, Saul Lieberman, Chaim Shmuelevitz, Joseph Ber Soloveitchik, Dovid Lifshitz, Aryeh Leib Malin, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Ephraim Oshry, Henoch Leibowitz, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Aharon Lichtenstein
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