Thursday, May 28th, 2009...6:06 am
Tel Aviv was once the capital of Hasidism
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“For whatever reason, the centennial’s organizers missed the fact that Tel Aviv was the preferred place of residence for senior Hasidic rabbis and their followers; they created a world whose size and quality easily compared to the communities of Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.From the early 1930s to the 1970s, more than 20 senior Hasidic rebbes (admorim) lived in Tel Aviv. Some of them were famous Hasidic leaders who immigrated to Israel and kept alive dynasties from Eastern Europe. They settled in Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem, believing it to be a good place to rebuild. “more@haAretz.com
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