Alexander

Alexander grew out of the Vorka chassidim: Reb Shraga Feivel of Gritza, a leading talmid of Reb Yitzchok of Vorka, briefly led them, and his son Reb Yechiel became the first Rebbe in Alexander in the 1870s. Under the Yismach Yisroel, the Tiferes Shmuel and the Akeidas Yitzchok it became one of the largest Chassidic groups in Poland, until almost all of it was destroyed in the Holocaust. It was rebuilt after the war by Rebbe Yehuda Moshe Dancyger, and is led today from Bnei Brak.

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