Kashau (קאשוי) is a hasidic dynasty, named after Kassa ( Košice), the town where it originated. Kashau has institutions in Williamsburg, Monsey, and Bedford Hills in

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Rebbes

Refuel Blum

The dynasty's first

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, Refuel Blum, was born in the town of Kassa ( Kasho),

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(today in

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). Before

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, Blum established a yeshiva in Mihalowitz. He survived the Holocaust and in the summer of 1945 returned to Kasho."Kasho Rav in Boro Park," by Gershon Tannenbaum. ''The Jewish Press''. June 13, 2007. In 1948 he moved to

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, New York, and soon afterward he became head of the Tzelemer yeshiva, Arugas Habosem, and founded a Kashau congregation in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. After an unsuccessful attempt in 1962 to establish a community in Morris County, N.J. he bought property in Irvington, N.Y. where he reestablished his yeshiva. In 1977, after a fire destroyed the Irvington property, he bought the Hillcrest Center for Children in

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and established Kahal Adas Kasho. The village is known as Kiryas Kashau. Blum died on March 1, 2005.

Eleizer Chaim Blum

Blum was born in Kasho. When he was six years old, he and his brother were saved from the Nazis as part of the

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References

External links

"Petira of the Kashau Rov, HaRav Eliezer Chaim Blum ZATZAL"
Dec 15, 2018.
"The Kashau Rov zt”l"
''Matzav.com''. Dec 15, 2018.
"BD'E – Petirah of Kashau Rav Harav Eliezer Chaim Blum Zt”l"
Dec 15, 2018.
"The Kashau Rav, Zt”l Harav Eliezer Chaim Blum"
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.com''. Dec 16, 2018. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kashau Hasidic dynasties Jewish Hungarian history History of Košice