Alesk (Hasidic dynasty)

Alesk is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rebbe Chanoch Henikh Dov Majer. It is named after Alesk, the Yiddish name of Oles'ko, a town in present-day Ukraine.

The current rabbi of Alesk, Rabbi Yitzchok Ashkenazi resides in Brooklyn, NY.

The grand rebbes of Sassov, Kaliv, Stanislov, Trisk, Malin and Radomishel are descendants of the Alesk dynasty.

Rabbi Asher Anschel Ashkenazi established the Stanislav dynasty in western Ukraine in a town now known as Ivano-Frankivsk. The town used to be called Stanisławów, and is still known in Yiddish as Stanislav.He was a descendant of the Chacham Zvi.

Arriving in London after surviving the Holocaust, Rabbi Meshulem Yisosschor Ashkenasi, born in 1905, became known as the Stanislav-Alesker Rebbe.

After his death in 1994, his son, Rabbi Uri Ashkenasi, became the Stanislaver Rebbe of London. He is a well-known mohel and has a Beth midrash in Stamford Hill at 93 Lordship Park, London.

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