Premishlan is a

Hasidic Hasidism () or Hasidic Judaism is a religious movement within Judaism that arose in the 18th century as a spiritual revival movement in contemporary Western Ukraine before spreading rapidly throughout Eastern Europe. Today, most of those aff ...

dynasty. It was founded by Grand Rabbi Meir Hagadol of

Peremyshliany Peremyshliany (, ; ; , ''Premishlan'') is a small city in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Peremyshliany urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Przemyślany, as the town is called i ...

(, ''Premishlan'')

Dynasty

Grand Rabbi Israel

Baal Shem Tov Israel ben Eliezer (According to a forged document from the "Kherson Geniza", accepted only by Chabad, he was born in October 1698. Some Hasidic traditions place his birth as early as 1690, while Simon Dubnow and other modern scholars argue f ...

, founder of Hasidism *The Great Grand Rabbi Meir Hagadol of Premishlan (1703–1773), a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov and a descendant of

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**Grand Rabbi Aharon Arye (''Uren Leib'') of Premishlan (died 1813), disciple of Rabbi Yechiel Michl of Zlotshov; son of Rabbi Meir the Great ***Grand Rabbi Isaac of Kalish, son of Rabbi Uren Leib of Premishlan ***Grand Rabbi Meir (''Meirl'') the Second of Premishlan (1783–1850), son of Rabbi Uren Leib, and the most famous rabbi of the dynasty. He was widely known as a 'miracle worker'.'Codex Judaica' M. Kantor, p.266 ****Grand Rabbi Tzvi Frankel of Premishlan (son in law of Rabbi Meir the second) *****Grand Rabbi Yisroel Aryeh Frankel of Premishlan, son of Rabbi Tzvi ******Grand Rabbi Yisroal Arya Margulies of Pramishlan (

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); his father, Rabbi Efrayim Zalman was married to the daughter of Rabbi Yisroel Aryeh Frankel

Current leadership

There are several ''Rebbes'' presently known as ''Premishlaner Rebbe''; all from the Premishlan dynasty. Among these is Grand Rabbi Meir Rosenbaum of Premishlan, present Premishlaner Rebbe. His court is in Bnei Brak, Israel. He is the son of Grand Rabbi Dovid Moshe of Kretshnif Hasidic dynasty. There is also a Premishlaner synagogue in

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led by Grand Rabbi Yisroel Arye Knopfler, a great-grandson of Rabbi Yisroel Arye Margulies.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Premishlan Hasidic dynasties Jewish Galician (Eastern Europe) history