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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

diaspora, and many rumors spread. The late Grand Rabbi of Munkatch, Chaim Elazar Spira, was aware of the change. He speculated that it was the same problem...

contact with Zionists, including the religious Mizrachim, and supported Chaim Elazar Spira in his opposition to Agudath Israel. When the Austro-Hungarian Empire...