Aleksander (Hasidic dynasty)
Overview
 
The Aleksander chasidic movement flourished in Poland from 1880 until it was largely destroyed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Now nearly extinct, the Aleksander Hasidim (also written as Alexander) were the second largest Hasidic
Hasidic Judaism
Hasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the Hebrew —Ḥasidut in Sephardi, Chasidus in Ashkenazi, meaning "piety" , is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith...

 group in pre-Holocaust
The Holocaust
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...

 Poland.

Between the world wars, Hasidic Jews from all over flocked to the small village of Alexander (as known by the Jews; or in Polish, Aleksandrów Łódzki) near Łódź, to spend the holiest days of the Jewish year in the presence of their spiritual leader, their rebbe
Rebbe
Rebbe , which means master, teacher, or mentor, is a Yiddish word derived from the Hebrew word Rabbi. It often refers to the leader of a Hasidic Jewish movement...

, Rabbi Yitzchak Menachem Dancyger (1879–1943).
 
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