Hasidic dynasty
Vizhnitz
Vizhnitz was founded in the mid-19th century by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager in the town of Vizhnitz in Bukovina (today in…
Topic
Satmar
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Community
Williamsburg (Brooklyn)
Williamsburg is a neighborhood in northern Brooklyn, New York, beside the Williamsburg Bridge that leads to Manhattan. After…
Community
Borough Park (Brooklyn)
Borough Park is a neighborhood in southwestern Brooklyn, New York, and is counted among the largest Jewish neighborhoods in the…
Place
Kiryas Joel (New York)
Kiryas Joel is a village in Orange County, New York, founded by Satmar Chassidim in the 1970s at the behest of the Satmar Rebbe,…
Community
Monsey (New York)
Monsey is a hamlet in the Town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York, with a large and growing Charedi community. It is considered…
History
Hasidic Life in New York, 2000–2007
The years 2000 to 2007 were a time of strong growth for New York's Hasidic communities: Borough Park had the most births in the…
History
"Der Yid": The Newspaper That Grew Up With Hasidic Williamsburg
How Aaron Rosmarin founded Der Yid in 1953 after losing his job at the Morgn-Zhurnal, how Satmar community leaders acquired it,…
Customs & life
The Mitzvah Tantz: A Wedding Custom a Thousand Years Old
The roots of the mitzvah tantz in the Gemara (Kesubos) and Machzor Vitry, the gartel, who dances, the special niggunim of each…
Community
Kiryas Joel: The Satmar Rebbe's Dream in the Hills of Monroe
From 14 Satmar families in summer 1974 to a village of 32,954 (2020 census): the founding by the Satmar Rebbe, incorporation in…
Hasidic dynasty
The Satmar Rebbe in Williamsburg: How Satmar Became America's Largest Hasidic Group
From the Rebbe's arrival on the MS Vulcania (26 Sept 1946) to Congregation Yetev Lev (1948), rapid growth (4,500 in 1961; largest…
Hasidic dynasty
Pupa: From a Hungarian Yeshiva to a Williamsburg Community
The Pupa dynasty from the Arugas Habosem to the Vayechi Yosef, R' Yosef Greenwald (1903–1984), who lost his family in the…
Hasidic dynasty
Vizhnitz in America: The Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Monsey and His Court
The Vizhnitz dynasty from the Tzemach Tzaddik to R' Mordechai Hager (1922–2018), who came to America in 1948 and led…
History
"The Jews' Highway": How a Bridge Created Jewish Williamsburg
The Williamsburg Bridge (opened 19 Dec 1903) and the Lower East Side Jews who crossed it, then the postwar Hasidic refugees under…
Singer
Michoel Schnitzler
Michoel Schnitzler (1961–2023) was a beloved Chasidic singer and composer who released over 150 mostly Yiddish songs.
Street & neighborhood
Kiryas Joel (Palm Tree)
Kiryas Joel is a Satmar Chasidic village in Orange County, NY, named for the Satmar Rebbe – with the youngest population in…
Singer
Shmueli Ungar
Shmueli Ungar is a Hasidic singer from Kiryas Joel, best known for his hit "Mach A Bracha".
Media
Der Yid
Der Yid is a New York Yiddish weekly founded in 1953, widely read across the Chasidic world.
Institution
Satmar Bikur Cholim
Satmar's bikur cholim, founded in Williamsburg in 1956, bringing food to Jewish patients in hospitals.
Media
Der Blatt
A weekly Yiddish newspaper in New York published by Satmar Chasidim since 2000.
װיקיפּעדיע (ייִדיש)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Yiddish Wikipedia) ↗
Yiddish Wikipedia's long article on Williamsburg, from its Dutch colonial beginnings in the 1600s to today's large Hasidic…
װיקיפּעדיע (ייִדיש)
Satu Mare (Satmar), Romania (Yiddish Wikipedia) ↗
Yiddish Wikipedia on the Transylvanian city of Satmar and its rabbis, from Rabbi Yehuda Grunwald up to Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, its…
Singer
Motty Ilowitz
Motty Ilowitz is a Jewish songwriter, composer, and performer known for meaningful, deep lyrics.
Influencer
Heshy Rubinstein
Heshy Rubinstein runs a YouTube channel capturing Chasidish community events and local news, especially from Boro Park and Satmar…