Rav Menachem Kalish Amshinover Rebbe (Kislev 16, 5678 / 1917 - 106th Yahrzeit)
Rav Menachem Kalish of Amshinov succeeded his father, Rav Yaakov Dovid Kalish, in 1878, at the young age of eighteen. One of Rav Menachem’s sons, Rav Yosef, became Rebbe in Amshinov, while his second son, Rav Shimon Sholom, became a Rebbe in Otvotsk. When Rav Yosef passed away in 1935, his son, Rav Yaakov Dovid (1906–1942), was immediately appointed as his successor. His uncle, Rav Shimon Sholom, had fled to Shanghai, where he helped the Mir Yeshiva in its escape and, after the war, he went to America. Upon his passing in 1954, he was succeeded by his son, Rav Yerachmiel Yehuda Meir, who set up court in the Yerushalayim neighborhood of Bayit Vegan. Rav Yerachmiel Yehuda Meir’s grandson, Rav Yaakov Aryeh Milikowski, succeeded him in 1976. Rav Yitzchok Kalish, the son of Rav Yosef, became the Rebbe of Amshinover Chassidim in America. Of Amshinov itself, nothing remained.
