Halberstam, Solomon

Halberstam, Solomon
▪ 2001
“Shlomo” 
      Polish-born American religious leader (b. 1907, Bobowa, Pol.—d. Aug. 2, 2000, New York, N.Y.), emigrated in the late 1940s to New York, where in Borough Park, a section of Brooklyn, he became the leader of the Bobov sect, a Hasidic group whose numbers had been greatly reduced by the Holocaust. Halberstam's father, Ben Zion, had led the Bobovers in Poland before he perished in a death camp. Halberstam lost most of his family in the Holocaust, including his wife, but managed to survive together with a son. Though he briefly lost his faith, Grand Rabbi Halberstam had a charismatic personality, and he inspired others to join him in reestablishing the community; like his father, he enjoyed singing and dancing, and the latter was showcased in the documentary A Life Apart: Hasidism in America (1997). Besides establishing the Hasidic centre in Brooklyn, Halberstam founded a settlement in Bat Yam, Israel, home to some 100 families. Halberstam, who was fond of using parables or maxims in his teachings, collected his discourses in such periodicals as Shaarei Zion (1960), Etz Havvim (1965), and Kerem Shlomo (1978). In the two-volume Kedushat Zion (1967 and 1976) he collected the discourses of his father.

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