Rabbi Yaakov Yehezkiya Grunwald (born April 17, 1948) is an American

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, the current leader of the Pupa Hasidic group in the United States.

Biography

He was born in

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, the second son of

Yosef Greenwald Yosef Greenwald (; 1903 – Brooklyn 1984) was the second Rebbe of the Pupa Hasidic dynasty. Before World War II he was a rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Pápa, Hungary. Greenwald was the son of Yaakov Yechezkiah Greenwald of Pupa and the grandson o ...

(the last rabbi of Papa, Hungary before the

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) and his second wife, Miriam Weber. When he was a child the family emigrated to the United States, where his father founded the Pupa hasidic dynasty. He is married to Bracha Frieda. He served as a dayan (rabbinic judge) and

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of the Pupa hasidim, and on his father's death 1984 succeeded him as the Pupa rebbe. Most of his followers live in the United States (mainly the state of New York) and Canada, and a few in Israel and London.

References

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