Amshinov (Hasidic dynasty)

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Rabbi Yerachmiel Yehudah Meir Kalish, the previous Amshinover Rebbe of Jerusalem

Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Milikowsky, the present Amshinover Rebbe of Jerusalem

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second to right: Rabbi Shimon Sholom Kalish - Amshinover Rebbe, in Shanghai, China

The present Amshinover Rebbe of Jerusalem (left), speaking with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach.

Rabbi Yoseph Kalish, the Amshinover Rebbe of Boro Park

Amshinov is a Chassidic dynasty that was founded by the Rebbe Reb Yaakov Dovid Kalish it originated in the Polish town of Mszczonów, known in Yiddish as "Amshinov".

The first Amshinover Rebbe was a son of Rabbi Yitzchok Kalish, the Vorki Rebbe. Rabbi Yitzchok of Vorki was a disciple of Rabbi Dovid Biderman of Lelov (1746-1814), who was a disciple of the Seer of Lublin, a disciple of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk, a disciple of the Preacher of Mezritch, who was the main disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism.

1 Lineage
2 History
3 New York
4 External links

[edit] Lineage

Grand Rabbi Yitzchok Kalish of Vorka
- Grand Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Kalish of Amshinov (1814–1878), son of Rabbi Yitzchok of Vorka
  - Grand Rabbi Menachem Kalish of Amshinov (1860-1918), son of Rabbi Yaakov Dovid
    - Grand Rabbi Yosef Kalish of Amshinov (d. 1935), son of Rabbi Menachem
      - Grand Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Kalish of Amshinov (1906-1942), son of Rabbi Yosef
      - Grand Rabbi Yitzchok Kalish of Amshinov (d. 1993), son of Rabbi Yosef
        
        Grand Rabbi Yosef Kalish of Amshinov, Present Amshinover Rebbe of America, son of Rabbi Yitzchok
    - Grand Rabbi Shimon Sholom Kalish of Amshinov-Otvotzk (1882-1954), son of Rabbi Menachem
      - Grand Rabbi Yerachmiel Yehudah Meir Kalish of Amshinov (1901-1976), son of Rabbi Shimon Shalom of Amshinov-Otvotzk
        
        Rabbi Chaim Milikowsky, son-in-law of Rabbi Yerachmiel Yehudah of Amshinov, Rosh Yeshivah (Dean) of Yeshivas Amshinov in E. Israel (did not become Rebbe)
        
        Grand Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Milikowsky of Amshinov, Present Amshinover Rebbe of Jerusalem, in the Bayit Vegan section of Jerusalem; son of Rabbi Chaim Milikowsky and Rebbetzin Chayah Nechamah Milikowsky, daughter of Rabbi Yerachmiel Yehudah Meir; Grandson of Rabbi Yerachmiel Yehudah Meir of Amshinov

[edit] History

Rab Yerachmiel Yehuda Meir (1901-1976) of Amshinov, was born in Przysucha (Peshischa in Yiddish), Poland. He learned with his grandfather, Rabbi Menachem of Amshinov. When Rabbi Menachem died in 1918, his son, Rabbi Yosef, became the Rebbe of Amshinov, and the other son, Rabbi Shimon Shalom – Rabbi Meir’s father – became Rebbe in Otwock (Otvotzk in Yiddish). Rabbi Shimon was a major driving force behind the exodus of thousands of young men in Mir, Kletzk, Radin, Novaradok, and other yeshivas via Japan to Shanghai at the outbreak of World War II. By the time Shanghai came under Japanese control, it held 26,000 Jews.

After the war, Rabbi Shimon moved to the United States. Upon his passing in 1954, Rabbi Meir accompanied Rabbi Shimon's body to Tiberias in Israel, and remained there. Rabbi Meir later moved to Tel Aviv, and then to the Bayit Vegan section of Jerusalem. Rabbi Meir was noted for his greatness in Torah scholarship, as well as his warmth and sensitivity to all. His grandson, Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Milikowski, succeeded him as the Amshinover Rebbe in Jerusalem.

[edit] New York

Rabbi Yosef Kalish is an Amshinover Rebbe in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of Rabbi Yitzchak Kalish of Amshinov, who was the son of Rabbi Yosef Kalish of Amshinov, the brother of Rabbi Shimon Shalom Kalish of Amshinov.