Joel (Yoel) Teitelbaum, (Hebrew: יואל טייטלבוים) (born January 18, 1887 - died August 19, 1979) known as Reb Yoelish or the Satmar Rav (or Rebbe), was a Hungarian Hasidic rebbe and Talmudic scholar and founder of the Satmar Hasidic dynasty. His approach to Judaism led to a renaissance of the 'Ungarish' (Hungary-originated) Hasidic community, composed by many Hungarian and Transylvanian Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants.
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Joel (Yoel) Teitelbaum, (Hebrew: יואל טייטלבוים) (born January 18, 1887 - died August 19, 1979) known as Reb Yoelish or the Satmar Rav (or Rebbe), was a Hungarian Hasidic rebbe and Talmudic scholar and founder of the Satmar Hasidic dynasty. His approach to Judaism led to a renaissance of the 'Ungarish' (Hungary-originated) Hasidic community, composed by many Hungarian and Transylvanian Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants.
Outside the Satmar Hasidic community, Teitelbaum is probably best known for his opposition to all forms of modern political Zionism, and for his controversial statements in which he blamed the Zionists for the death of six million Jews during the Holocaust.
Teitelbaum was the second and youngest son, and fifth child of, Grand Rabbi Chananyah Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum (1836–1904), who served as the rabbi of Sighet then in Hungary, today in Romania. He was renowned from a young age for his sharp tongue and analytical skills. As a young man, he moved...
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