Judaism in Romania

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Chapters: Romanian rabbis, Sanz Hasidism, Synagogues in Romania, Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, Laniado Hospital, Moses Gaster, Klausenburg, Spinka, Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum, Seret, List of synagogues in Romania, Eliezer Zusia Portugal, Fishel Hershkowitz, Chaim Halberstam, Siget, Shotz, Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, Jacob Saphir, Jewish Museum, Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam, Vasloi, Moses Josef Rubin, Fabric Synagogue, Ernest Klein, Shmuel Dovid Halberstam, Cluj-Napoca Neolog Synagogue, Great Synagogue, Satu Mare Synagogue, Iosefin Synagogue, Yeshua Tova Synagogue, Bohush, Shlomo Goldman, Templul Coral. Excerpt: Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam (January 10, 1905 - June 18, 1994) was an Orthodox rabbi and the founding rebbe of the Sanz-Klausenburg Hasidic dynasty. Halberstam became one of the youngest rebbes in Europe, leading thousands of followers in the town of Klausenburg, Romania, before World War II. His wife, eleven children and most of his followers were murdered by the Nazis while he was incarcerated in several concentration camps. After the war, he rebuilt Jewish communal life in the displaced persons camps of Western Europe, re-established his dynasty in the United States and Israel, and rebuilt his own family with a second marriage and the birth of seven more children. Halberstam was born in 1905 in the town of Rudnik, Poland. He was a great-grandson (through the direct male line) of Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz (the Divrei Chaim), one of the great Hasidic leaders of Polish Jewry, and a grandson of the Gorlitzer Rebbe, Rabbi Baruch Halberstam (1829-1906). His father, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Halberstam, the Rav of Rudnik, instilled in the young Yekusiel Yehudah a love of Hasidut and Torah scholarship, sharing with him stories of how the Divrei Chaim learned, prayed and conducted his tish (Shabbat and Jewish holiday celebratory table). When Yekusiel Yehudah was 13, his father died. Afterwards he studied with other leading Hasidic rebbes, including Rabbi Myer Yechiel of Ostrovtza, Rabbi Chaim Elazar Shapiro (the Munkatcher Rebbe), and his great-uncle, Rabbi Shalom Eliezer Halberstam of Ratzfert. During this period, Yekusiel Yehudah became known as the "ilui ("genius") of Rudnik,". In later years he would periodically return to Rudnik to visit with his followers, who remained loyal to him even after the appointment of his first cousin Rabbi Benyumin Teitelbaum-Halberstam as Rabbi in 1924. In 1921, Halberstam married his second cousin, Chana Teitelbaum, the daughter of Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum, the Rabbi of Sighet, Romania. She was also a descendant of the Divrei Chaim: her