Before the Holocaust, prayers were led here by none other than Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, the late founder of the Satmar movement of Hasidic Judaism. The Satmars, who derive their name from this ...

Major Hasidic dynasties include Satmar, Chabad-Lubavitch, Breslov, Ger, Belz, and Bobov, among others. These sects often differ in their approach to religious observance, their interpretation of ...

Soon after its founding in the mid-eighteenth century by Jewish mystics, Hasidism rapidly gained popularity ... town of Bobova in Poland (Galicia), the Satmar from Satu Mar in present-day Hungary ...

The largest Hasidic groups settling in Williamsburg were of Hungarian origin, the Satmar and the Klausenberg. They rapidly took over part of the neighborhood--in 1951, the last movie house on Lee ...

“Today almost all of them speak Hungarian-Yiddish just like the members of the larger Hasidic groups like Satmar,” he said.