Sighet

Sighet (Sighetu Marmației), a town in the Maramureș region of northern Romania (historically Hungary), was the seat of the Sighet chasidic dynasty of the Teitelbaum family. Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Teitelbaum (the Yetev Lev) became its rabbi in 1858; the dynasty's later scion Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum went on to found the Satmar community.

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