Chaim Elazar Spira (December 17, 1868 – May 13, 1937) was a rebbe of the Hasidic Munkacs dynasty. Spira was born in Strzyżów, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria...

Orthodox Jews, and Zionists. The town is most noted for its Chief Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira who led the community until his death in 1937. By 1851, Munkács supported...

his son, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Spira of Munkacs, author of Darkhei T'shuvah. The Rebbe of Munkatch, Grand Rebbe Chaim Elazar Spira, who led the community from...

them the rabbi of Munkács, Chaim Elazar Spira (d. 1937), who was the fiercest opponent of Zionism among Hasidic rabbis. Spira saw Zionism as a denial of...

Camilla Spira (1906–1997), German film actress Chaim Elazar Spira (1868–1937), Polish Orthodox rabbi Elijah Spira (1660–1712), Czech rabbi Ella Spira, English...

his mother's first cousin, Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira, the Munkacser dynasty's rebbe, also known as the 'Minchas Elazar'. This set him on course to succeed...

leading authority of Hungarian extremists in the Interwar period, Chaim Elazar Spira of Mukačevo, regarded the Polish/German ultra-Orthodox Agudath Israel...

contact with Zionists, including the religious Mizrachim, and supported Chaim Elazar Spira, the Rebbe of Munkacs, in his opposition to Agudath Israel. When the...

Notable feuds between "courts" include the 1926–1934 strife after Chaim Elazar Spira of Munkatch cursed the deceased Yissachar Dov Rokeach I of Belz; the...

Rabbi of Munkacs following the death of his father-in-law Chief Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira in 1937 until the Nazis occupied Munkacs in 1944. During World War...