Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty)

Vizhnitz Hasidic Dynasty

The Hasidic synagogue in Vyzhnytsia
Founder
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager
Regions with significant populations
United States, Israel, United Kingdom, Canada, Romania, Ukraine
Religions
Hasidic Judaism

Vizhnitz is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager. Vizhnitz (ויז׳ניץ or וויזשניץ) is the Yiddish name of Vyzhnytsia, a town in present-day Ukraine (then, a village in Austrian Bukovina).

Followers of the rebbes of Vizhnitz are called Vizhnitzer Hasidim.