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The Shendishover court on the Lower East Side
The Lower East Side became the permanent American seat of Shendishov under Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Horowitz: a home and beis medrash of tefillah, tishen, Torah, counsel, hospitality and public responsibility.
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Rabbi Yisroel Dovid on the East Side
The home and beis medrash became an address for tefillah, tishen, Torah, hospitality, counsel and brachah.
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The Shendishover society constitution
The bilingual constitution records an organized landsmanschaft, communal obligations, officers and burial societies.
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A ציבור visible by name
The annual journal preserves committees, the Sisterhood, families, supporters, greetings and advertisements around the Rebbe.
Read the illustrated article →A ציבור before the permanent court
Families and Chassidim from Shendishov and neighboring Galician towns had already organized in New York before Rabbi Tuvia’s first journey. His visits in the 1920s gave that ציבור a living center.
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid
Before returning to Poland in 1929, Rabbi Tuvia entrusted the American beis medrash and ציבור to his son Rabbi Yisroel Dovid. The East Side house became known for tefillah and tishen, counsel and brachah, hospitality, chinuch and work with other Rebbes and rabbanim.
A community visible in its records
The 1936 society constitution and the 1948 dinner journal preserve officers, committees, women’s activity, advertisements, families and supporters. Together they show an established communal world, not merely the memory of one personality.