Amshinov (

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: אמשינאוו) is a dynasty of

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founded in the town of

Mszczonów Mszczonów is a town in Żyrardów County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 6,231 inhabitants as of the 2006 census. It is situated just outside the Warsaw metropolitan area, approximately from Warsaw city centre. History The oldest known me ...

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, by Yaakov Dovid Kalish, the son of

Israel Yitzhak Kalish Israel Yitzhak Kalish of Warka (Yitzchok of Vurka) (1779–1848) was the first hasidic rebbe of Warka. In 1829 he moved to Przysucha, where his master tzadik Simcha Bunim of Peshischa was teaching. Eventually he settled in Warka. Together with r ...

. Amshinov is a branch of Warka Hasidism, which in part is a branch of Peshischa Hasidism, as Israel Yitzhak Kalish was a leading disciple of

Simcha Bunim of Peshischa Simcha Bunim Bonhardt of Peshischa (, ; – 4 September 1827) also known as the Rebbe Reb Bunim was the second Grand Rabbi of Peshischa ( Przysucha, Poland) as well as one of the key leaders of Hasidic Judaism in Poland. The main disciple of ...

(1765-1827).

History

The first Amshinover

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, Yaakov Dovid Kalish, was a son of the first Vurker rebbe,

Warka Warka () is a town in east-central Poland, located on the left bank of the Pilica river ( south of Warsaw), with 11,858 inhabitants (2013). It has been situated in Grójec County, in the Masovian Voivodeship, since 1999; previously it was in t ...

(). Kalish died in 1878 and was succeeded as Amshinover Rebbe by one of his sons, Menachem Kalish. When Menachem Kalish died in 1917 his son Yosef became the rebbe in Amshinov, and his other son, Shimon Sholom, became rebbe in

Otwock Otwock (Yiddish: אָטוואָצק) is a city in the Masovian Voivodeship in east-central Poland, some south-east of Warsaw, with 43,895 inhabitants (2024). Otwock is part of the Warsaw metropolitan area. It is situated on the right bank of the ...

( ''Otvotsk''). He was involved in the exodus of thousands of young men in Kletzk, Radin, Novhardok, and other

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s via

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at the outbreak of

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. By the time Shanghai came under Japanese control, it held 26,000 Jews. Shimon Sholom's son Yerachmiel Yehuda Myer Kalish (1901–1976) of Amshinov, was born in

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( ''Pshiskhe''),

. He studied Torah with his grandfather, Menachem Kalish. After the war, Shimon moved to the United States. Upon his death in 1954 (י"ט אב תשי"ד), his son accompanied his body to

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, and remained in Israel, later movimg to

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, and then to the

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neighbourhood of

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21st century rebbes

Jerusalem

Yaakov Aryeh Yeshaya Milikowsky, the Amshinover

in the

section of

, was born in the United States and was named after his ancestor

Yaakov Aryeh Guterman Grand Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Guterman (1792–1874) was the founding admor of the Radzymin Hasidic Dynasty. He was called the "''Sabba Kadisha'' (Holy Grandfather) of ''Radzymin''". Biography Guterman was a disciple of the Seer of Lublin, the Maggi ...

of the hasidic dynasty of

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. He is the son of Yerachmiel Yehudah Meir Kalish's daughter Chayah Nechamah and her husband Chaim Milikowsky. In 2015 he founded an organization calle
Tzedaka V'chesed Amshinov
as a charity in memory of

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Ba'al HaNes.

New York

Yosef Kalish II was the previous Amshinover rebbe in the

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section of

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, New York City. He was the son of Yitzchak Kalish, the son of Yosef Kalish. He died on April 5, 2020, at the age of 63, from

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. His two children succeeded him: the older, Menachem Kalish, became the rebbe in Boro Park and the younger, Osher Chaim Kalish, in Bet Shemesh.

Lineage of the Amshinov dynasty

References

External links

A collection of pictures of the previous Amshinover Rebbe with Hebrew captions
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