Joel Teitelbaum

Uncommon card · No. 178600

Joel Teitelbaum (Yiddish: יואל טייטלבוים, romanized: Yoyel Teytlboym, IPA: [ˈjɔɪ.əl ˈtɛɪtl̩bɔɪm]; 13 January 1887 – 19 August 1979) was a Hungarian-born Romanian, later American Jewish leader, who was the founder and first Grand Rebbe of the Satmar dynasty. The Satmar Rebbe is also known as the Krula Rav. A major figure in the post-war renaissance of Hasidism, he espoused a strictly conservative and isolationist line, rejecting modernity. Teitelbaum was a fierce opponent of Zionism, which he decried as inherently heretical on the basis of his own Orthodox Jewish interpretation of Jewish messianic prophecies and theology derived from the Talmud. The town of Kiryas Joel in New York is named in his honor.

Read on Wikipedia · Image Anomymous, Public domain