Yosef Greenwald
{{short description|Jewish Hasidic religious leader and Holocaust survivor}}
{{Infobox rebbe
| name = Yosef Greenwald
| title = Pupa Rebbe, the Vaychi Yosef
| image = Pupa Rebbe Yosef Greenwald.jpg
| caption =
| began = Adar, 1941
| ended = 13 Av, 1984
| birth_name = Joseph Grunwald
| signature =
| main_work = Vaychi Yosef
| predecessor = Yaakov Yechezkiya Greenwald (I)
| successor = Yaakov Yechezkiya Greenwald (II)
| spouse = Chana Greenwald, Miriam Weber
| children = 10 children, including Yaakov Yehezkiya Greenwald
| dynasty = Pupa
| father = Yaakov Yechezkiya Greenwald (I)
| mother = Sara Rivkah Brown
| birth_date = 16 September 1903
| birth_place = Brezovica, Slovakia
| death_date = 11 August 1984
| death_place = Westchester Medical Center, Westchester County, New York
| yahrtzeit = 13 Av
| date of burial = 12 Aug, 1984
| place of burial = [https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2352311/kiryas-pupa Kiryas Pupa Cemetery] in Ossining, New York
|}}
Yosef Greenwald ({{langx|he|יוסף גרינוואלד}}; 16 September 1903 – 11 August 1984) was the second Rebbe of the Pupa Hasidic dynasty. Before World War II he was a rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Pápa, Hungary.
Greenwald was the son of Yaakov Yechezkiah Greenwald of Pupa and the grandson of Moshe Greenwald.
After the war he moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and established the contemporary Pupa Hasidic movement.{{cite web |date=26 October 2018 |title=Why three Malachim? a Story |url=https://www.worldofbelz.org/2018/10/26/three-malachim-story/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117013249/https://www.worldofbelz.org/2018/10/26/three-malachim-story/ |archive-date=17 January 2019 |access-date=16 January 2019 |website=World of Belz}}
Early life
Greenwald was born on 16 September 1903 (24 Elul 5663) in Brezovica, Hungary,{{Cite web|url=http://www.mytzadik.com/tzadik.aspx?id=1014|title = אדמו"ר רבי יוסף גרינוולד מפאפא}} and studied in his father's yeshiva in Pápa, Hungary.
In 1925 he married his grandfather's niece Chana. She had been raised by her uncle Eliezer David Greenwald, whom Yosef Greenwald succeeded as the head of the Keren Ledovid Yeshiva.{{cite web |url=http://www.mytzadik.com/tzadik.aspx?id=1014 |website=MyTzadik|title=אדמו''ר רבי יוסף גרינוואלד מפאפא}}
Rabbinic career
After his father's death in 1941, Greenwald moved to Papa, Hungary, and began to serve as rabbi and Rosh Yeshivah. He brought additional students from Satmar to study in the yeshiva, and hid roughly 60 young men who fled from Slovakia and Poland.
On 11 May 1944, Greenwald was sent to an Arbeitslager (Nazi labor camp), where his mother was murdered. Toward the end of World War II he hid in the Glass House in Budapest. His wife and ten children were murdered in the Holocaust. After the war he returned to Pápa and re-established the yeshiva.
He was remarried after the war to Miriam Weber (b. 12 October 1918 in Soltvadkert). He moved {{circa|1946}} with the yeshiva, at that time numbering approximately 60 young men, to Szombathely, Hungary. Later they moved to Antwerp, Belgium where Greenwald lived for several years.
= United States =
In 1950 Greenwald emigrated to the United States, settling in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn with several students, where he founded the congregation "Kehilath Yaacov - Pupa", and continued as Admor of the Pupa Chassidut.
He became president of the Central Rabbinical Congress of the United States and Canada c. 1980.{{cn|date=January 2023}}
Death and legacy
Greenwald died on August 11, 1984, after a stroke, and was succeeded by his son Yaakov Yechezkia Greenwald II.Jewish Telegraphic Agency, [http://archive.jta.org/article/1984/08/14/2999693/rabbi-joseph-grunwald-dead-at-81 "Rabbi Joseph Grunwald Dead at 81"], August 14, 1984
His students included Gavriel Zinner and Yaakov Yitzhak Neumann.
Works
- Vaychi Yosef on the Torah
- Vaychi Yosef on Moadim
- Vaychi Yosef on Chanukah[https://www.otzar.org/wotzar/Book.aspx?15301& ויחי יוסף - חנוכה / גרינוואלד, יוסף בן יעקב יחזקיהו / תש"נ - אוצר החכמה]
- Vaychi Yosef on the Passover Haggadah
- Vaychi Yosef on tractate Mikvaot
- Responsa Vaya'an Yosef - on four parts of Shulchan Aruch{{cite web |title=ויען יוסף - א / גרינוואלד, יוסף בן יעקב יחזקיהו / תשנ"ה |url=https://www.otzar.org/wotzar/Book.aspx?28193& |website=אוצר החכמה}}{{cite web |title=ויען יוסף - ה / גרינוואלד, יוסף בן יעקב יחזקיהו / תשס"ט |url=https://www.otzar.org/wotzar/book.aspx?170916 |website=אוצר החכמה}}
- Shyorei Mitzvah - printed in the books of his father Vayageid Yaakov
- pamphlet Kelach Shel Eizov - appendix to Haggadah Agudath Eizov
- pamphlet Keneh Bosem appendix to Sefer Arugat HaBoshem on EIChAI
- Pesach Tov - Sermons for the opening of the Yeshiva Zman
- Darkei Yosef - Matters of Musar and the Fear of God
References
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== External links ==
- kevarim.com, [https://kevarim.com/rebbe-yosef-greenwald/ "Rebbe Yosef Greenwald"]
- [https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-pupa-rav-baruch-y-lebovits.html The Pupa Rav Drawing by Baruch Y Lebovits - Fine Art America]
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