Chaim Elazar Spira

Chaim Elazar Spira
Spira in 1937.
TitleMunkacser Rebbe
Personal life
BornChaim Elazar Spira
(1868-12-17)December 17, 1868
Strzyżów, Austria-Hungary
DiedMay 13, 1937(1937-05-13) (aged 68)
Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia
BuriedMukachevo, Czechoslovakia
May 13, 1937
SpouseRochel Perl, daughter of Yakov Moshe Safrin of Komarno
ChildrenChaya Fruma ("Frima") Rifka Spira
Parents
  • Tzvi Hirsch Spira of Munkacz (father)
  • Esther, daughter of Chanina Horowitz of Ulanów (mother)
DynastyMunkacz
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
Jewish leader
PredecessorTzvi Hirsch Spira
SuccessorBaruch Yehoshua Yerachmiel Rabinovich
Began1913
Ended1937
Main workMinchas Elozor
DynastyMunkacz

Chaim Elazar Spira (December 17, 1868 – May 13, 1937), also known as the Minchas Elazar after his magnum opus, was a rebbe of the Hasidic Munkacs dynasty.

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