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Announcing the arrival to Jerusalem of the sons of R. Yisrael Hager, the Admor of Vizhnitz. The Jerusalem community is requested to greet them at the train station at 7 in the evening on Thursday, the 13th of Iyar [5]695 (May 16, 1935).
R. Yisrael Hager, (1860-1936) was very popular and had thousands of Hasidim. He founded a big yeshivah, Bet Israel, and moved to Grosswardein (Hung. Nagyvarad) which became a center of Hasidism in Hungary. His publications include Ahavat Yisrael (1943) and Or Yisrael (1938).
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