Last updated on:
9/23/2015 |
Author: ProCon.org
Joel Teitelbaum Biography
- Title:
- Rebbe of the Hungarian Satmar Hasidic Dynasty
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Is a Two-State Solution (Israel and Palestine) an Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of Jan. 1, 2010
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Grand Rabbi, Hungarian Hasidic Rebbe, and Talmudic Scholar
- Founder of Kiryas Joel Town near Monroe, New York, 1970’s
- Became the only Jewish leader to denounce the newly founded Jewish state, 1948
- Holocaust survivor, 1944
- Rabbi of Satmar (Rumania), 1934 – WWII
- Education:
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- None found
- Other:
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- Born: 1887
- Died: 1979