Bobowa (Bobov)באבוב

Galicia (southern Poland) — Bobov dynasty origin

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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