Spinka

Spinka goes back to Rebbe Yosef Meir Weiss, the Imrei Yosef, the leading talmid of the Zidichover Rebbe, who began leading chassidim in his wife's town of Spinka in Marmarosh. His son, the Chakal Yitzchok, led a large court in Spinka, Munkatch and Selish until he was killed at Auschwitz in 1944. After the war the dynasty was rebuilt by his descendants as several courts, in the Weiss, Horowitz and Kahana families, in Boro Park, Williamsburg, Bnei Brak and Yerushalayim.

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