Be'er Moshe of Ozharov

Be'er Moshe of Ozharov - R' Moshe Yechiel Epstein - Ozharover Rebbe (1889-1971), Poland, New York, Israel; In 1925, went to New York where he set up his Chassidic court on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and then in the Bronx. His entire family in Europe was murdered in the Holocaust. After WWII the remnants of the chasidim of Chentshin were left leaderless, their rebbe having been killed, and they adopted the Ozherover Rebbe, a grandson of the first Chentshiner Rebbe, as their leader. Excited by the new state of Israel, Rabbi Moshe Yechiel moved to Tel Aviv in 1952, where he spent the rest of his life. He was awarded the Israel Prize in the category of Rabbinical literature in 1968.