Boruch Of Medzhybizh

male, deceased (1811)
Rabbi Boruch of Mezhbizh (1753-1811), was a grandson of the Baal Shem Tov. Reb Boruch (known in his childhood as Reb Boruch'l, a Yiddish...

Yisroel ben Eliezer

male, deceased (1760)
Rabbi Yisroel (Israel) ben Eliezer is considered to be the founder of Hasidic Judaism (see also Mezhbizh Hasidic dynasty). He was born in Okopy, to...
Avraham Yehoshua Heshel

Avraham Yehoshua Heshel

male, 261 years old
Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apt, popularly known as the Apter Rebbe or Apter Rov, was born in Zhmigrid, Poland in 1748 and died in Mezhbizh,...

Hershele Ostropoler

male
Hershele Ostropoler, also known as Hershel of Ostropol, is a prominent figure in Jewish humor, and the Jewish equivalent of Nasreddin and Till...
Nachman Of Breslov

Nachman Of Breslov

male, deceased (1810)
Nachman of Breslov also known as Reb Nachman of Bratslav, Nachman from Uman, or simply as Rebbe Nachman (in local Yiddish reb Nokhmen Broslever)...
Micha Josef Berdyczewski

Micha Josef Berdyczewski

male, deceased (1921)
Micha Josef Berdyczewski, or Mikhah Yosef Bin-Gorion (surname also written "Berdichevsky") was a Ukrainian-born writer of Hebrew, a journalist, and...
Yoel Sirkis

Yoel Sirkis

male, deceased (1640)
Bayit Chadash, Rabbi Sirkis's best known work, is a major commentary on the "Arba'ah Turim" of Jacob ben Asher. The work presents and elucidates...
Joseph Barondess

Joseph Barondess

male
Joseph Barondess was a labor leader and political figure in New York City's Lower East Side Jewish community in the late nineteenth century and...