Yitzchok Friedman
Yitzchok Friedman | |
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Only known picture of Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman, the Pachad Yitzchok of Boyan | |
| Title | First Boyaner Rebbe |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Yitzchok Friedman 1850 |
| Died | 11 March 1917 (aged 66–67) |
| Buried | Vienna |
| Spouse | Malka Twersky |
| Children | Menachem Nachum Yisroel Avrohom Yaakov Mordechai Shlomo Miriam |
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| Dynasty | Boyan |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Jewish leader | |
| Predecessor | None |
| Successor | Rabbi Menachem Nachum Friedman of Boyan-Chernowitz Rabbi Yisrael Friedman of Boyan-Leipzig Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Friedman of Boyan-Lemberg Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Friedman of Boyan-New York City Rabbi Moshenu of Boyan-Kraków |
| Began | 1887 |
| Ended | 11 March 1917 |
| Main work | Pachad Yitzchok |
| Dynasty | Boyan |
Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman (1849 – 11 March 1917) was the grandson of Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhin, founder of the Ruzhin Hasidic dynasty. In 1887, Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman established a Hasidic court in Boiany (Bukovina), which later became the Boyaner Hasidic dynasty and served as its first Rebbe until World War I. During his time as leader, Boyan communities were established in Eastern Europe as well as in Tiberias, and Jerusalem. Scholarship notes that Volhynia (Vohlyn) kolel operated under the Israel of Ruzhin's patronage and his descendants. Friedman was part of this lineage and associated with that institutional network. During World War I, Friedman relocated to Vienna, where he died in 1917. His sons established courts in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), Leipzig, Lviv, and New York.