Radomsk

Radomsk (Hebrew: רדומסק) is a hasidic dynasty named after the town of Radomsko in Łódź province, south-central Poland.^[1] The dynasty was founded in 1843 by Shlomo Hakohen Rabinowicz (known as the Tiferes Shlomo).^[2] His son, grandson and great-grandson also led the dynasty, which had thousands of followers. On the eve of World War II, Radomsk was the third largest Hasidic dynasty in Poland, after Ger and Alexander.^[3]

The town of Radomsko was destroyed and most of its Jews deported and killed during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. The fourth Radomsker rebbe, Shlomo Chanoch Hakohen Rabinowicz, was murdered by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, bringing the father-to-son dynasty to an end.

In 1965, at the request of Radomsker Hasidim who had survived the Holocaust and were living in Israel, the fifth rebbe of the Sochatchover Hasidim (and a descendant of the first Radomsker rebbe) Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain,^[4] became their rebbe as well. Bornsztain's son Avrohom Nosson Bornsztain leads the Radomsker synagogue in Bnei Brak.^[5]