Yosef Leifer

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch

The founder and first Rebbe of the Pittsburg Hasidic dynasty in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which he led for 42 years.

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Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch

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Avraham Abba Leifer

The second Rebbe of the Pittsburg Hasidic dynasty and the instigator for the relocation of the Hasidut from its original location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Israeli coastal city of Ashdod.

The second Rebbe of the Pittsburg Hasidic dynasty and the instigator for the relocation of the Hasidut from its original location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Israeli coastal city of Ashdod.

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Avraham Abba Leifer was born in Nagykároly, Hungary (today Carei, Romania) to Rabbi Yosef Leifer, the grandson of Rabbi Mordechai of Nadvorna and a direct descendant of Grand Rabbi Meir the Great of Premishlan, a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov.

Grand Rabbi Mordechai Yissachar Ber Leifer (right) with Grand Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke Leifer of Chust (US), 2006

Mordechai Yissachar Ber Leifer

The third Rebbe of the Pittsburgh Hasidic dynasty.

The third Rebbe of the Pittsburgh Hasidic dynasty.

Grand Rabbi Mordechai Yissachar Ber Leifer (right) with Grand Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke Leifer of Chust (US), 2006

He was the son of Grand Rabbi Avraham Abba Leifer and the grandson of Grand Rabbi Yosef Leifer, a scion of the Nadvorna Hasidic dynasty who founded the Hasidut in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1924.

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Pittsburgh (Hasidic dynasty)

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Pittsburgh is a Hasidic dynasty founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1924 by Rabbi Yosef Leifer, a Hungarian rabbi and descendant of Rabbi Mordechai of Nadvorna.

Leifer in October 2020

Meshulam Eliezer Leifer

Fourth Rebbe of the Pittsburgh Hasidic dynasty.

Fourth Rebbe of the Pittsburgh Hasidic dynasty.

Leifer in October 2020

His paternal great-grandfather, Grand Rabbi Yosef Leifer, established the Pittsburgh Hasidic dynasty in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the late 1920s, and his grandfather, Grand Rabbi Avraham Abba Leifer, moved the Hasidut to Ashdod, Israel, in 1970.

Chassidim of Nadvorna in the Inauguration of a Torah scroll to the beit midrash

Nadvorna (Hasidic dynasty)

Hasidic rabbinical dynasty within ultra-Orthodox Judaism.

Hasidic rabbinical dynasty within ultra-Orthodox Judaism.

Chassidim of Nadvorna in the Inauguration of a Torah scroll to the beit midrash
Tish in Nadvorna
Gravesite of the Admorim of Nadvorna on the Mount of Olives
Tish in Nadvorna
Chassidim of Nadvorna in the introduction of a Torah scroll to their Beit Midrash
The building of the Nadvorna Hassidic institutions, located in the center of Kiryat Nadvorna.
Rabbi Nathan David Rosenbaum, Rebbe of Zutschka

Grand Rabbi Yosef Leifer of Pittsburg (1891–1966), author of Tzidkas Yosef, son of Rabbi Yissachar Dov Ber (Bertche) of Nadvorna-Satmar

Carei

City in Satu Mare County, northwestern Romania, near the border with Hungary.

City in Satu Mare County, northwestern Romania, near the border with Hungary.

Kingdom of Hungary stamp, cancelled NAGY-KÁROLY in 1889
King Ferdinand I and Queen Marie of Romania departing Carei in 1919, during the Hungarian–Romanian War
Aerial view of the Károlyi Castle
Monument of the Romanian Soldier, by Gheza Vida
Count Sándor Károlyi de Nagykároly (1688–1743)
Margit Kaffka (1880–1918)
Saint Joseph Calasanctius Church
The Calvinist church
The synagogue
The Carei town hall
The Károlyi Castle
The Károlyi Castle
The castle's water tower
Coat of arms on the wall of the Károlyi Castle

Yosef Leifer (1891–1966), founder and first Rebbe of the Pittsburg Hasidic dynasty