Yekusiel Yehudah Teitelbaum

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Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Teitelbaum (1808-1883) was a Hasidic Rebbe ("rabbi") in Austria-Hungary. He was to become the grandfather of Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, the Rebbe of the Satmar Hasidim that was transplanted to the United States after the Holocaust. Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Teitelbaum was the son of Rabbi Eliezer Nissen Teitelbaum, who was the son of the Yismach Moshe (Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum; famous Orthodox rabbis are sometimes known by the titles of their religious works) of Ujel, Hungary.

When the town of Sighet, Hungary, was looking for a new rabbi, he offered himself as a candidate and became the Rebbe of Siget. He was the author of Yetev Lev, a Hasidic commentary on the Torah, which he originally published anonymously. Reb Burich of Gorlitz, son of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz, married his daughter. Reb Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam of Klausenberg was his great-grandson from that marriage.