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Grodzhisk is a
Hasidic
dynasty founded by
Rebbe
Elimelech Szapira, author of Imrei Elimelech.
Grodzhisk is the
Yiddish name of
Grodzisk Mazowiecki, a town in present-day
Poland.
Lineage
- Rabbi
Elimelech Szapira of Grodzhisk (b. 1823, d. 29 March 1892).
- Rabbi Yisroel Szapira. son of Rabbi Elimelech Szapira.
- Rabbi Chayim Myer Yechiel Szapira, son of Rabbi Elimelech Szapira.
- Rabbi
Yisroel Shapira (killed at
Treblinka, 1942), son of Rabbi Chayim Myer Yechiel.
- Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Szapira (d. Dec. 6, 1966), son of Rabbi Yisroel Shapira.
- Rabbi
Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of
Piaseczno (b. 1889, killed at
Trawniki, November 3, 1943), son of Rabbi Elimelech Szapira.
- Rabbi Isaiah, son of Rabbi Elimelech Szapira.
- Rabbi Elimelech, son of Rabbi Isaiah.