Person · 5651–5731 AM · 1891 CE — 1971 CE

Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Friedman of Boyan רבי מרדכי שלמה פרידמן מבויאן

the second rebbe of Boyan; the first Ruzhin rebbe in America

After the death of Rabbi Yitzchak of Boyan in 1917 the house of Boyan was divided among the sons: the elder ones stayed in Europe, and he, the youngest, left for New York in 1927.

America. He was the first rebbe of the house of Ruzhin across the ocean. He kept court on the East Side, later in Brooklyn, in the Ruzhin manner—reserved, without wonders and without crowds. His brothers and their courts perished in the Shoah; of the Boyan rebbes he alone remained.

Jerusalem. In his lifetime the Boyan chasidim of Jerusalem already gathered round their own synagogue; after his death in 1971 the court was re-established there, and today Boyan is a Jerusalem court.

On the timeline

5537 · 1777 CEThe courts of Galicia, Bukovina and Hungary: Ruzhin, Belz, Sanz, Satmar 5699 · 1939 CEThe Shoah: the Destruction of European Jewry 5706 · 1946 CERebuilding after the War: DP Camps and New Yeshivot

Places

New York Jerusalem

Rabbi Yitzchak Friedman of Boyan Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Friedman of Sadigura

Sources

Acharonim and later rabbinic literature

The chronicles of the house of Ruzhin — the court and the succession

Scholarship

Reference works on the chasidic courts of America — New York, the dates

Basis: documents and evidence.