Pinchas David Horowitz

Rabbi Pinchas David Horowitz, (July 15, 1877[1] or 1876 - November 28, 1941)[2] was a Hasidic rebbe and the founder of the Boston Hasidic dynasty, one of the first Hasidic courts in America.

Biography

Born in Jerusalem, he was a paternal descendant of Zevi Joshua Horowitz, son of Shmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburg. He was sent as a representative and arbitrator by the Jerusalem community to Russia in an important European rabbinic dispute.^[citation needed] The outbreak of World War I prevented his return to Palestine and in 1915 he went to Boston to collect money for charity (tzedakah). He attracted a small group of followers but soon left Boston for New York.[3] In 1939 Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz relocated the congregation to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, remaining there until his death on November 28, 1941.[3]

Horowitz's successors were his sons, rabbis Moshe Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe of New York, and Levi Yitzchok Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe of Boston and Har Nof, Jerusalem.[2]

References

1. Naturalization papers. "Ancestry.com". Ancestry.com.
2. Alfasi, Yitsḥaḳ (1995–1998). ha-Ḥasidut mi-dor le-dor החסידות מדור לדור [Hasidism from generation to generation] (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: Mekhon Daʻat Yosef. pp. 143–144. LCCN 95828260.
3. Sherman, Moshe D. (1996), Orthodox Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook (Jewish Denominations in America), Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 94–96, ISBN 978-0-313-24316-5.

• Valakh, Shalom Meir (2002). A Chassidic journey: the Polish Chassidic dynasties of Lublin, Lelov, Nikolsburg and Boston. Jerusalem: Feldheim. ISBN 9781583305683.