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Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty)
Ukrainian Hasidic dynasty / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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).
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Followers of the rebbes of Vizhnitz are called Vizhnitzer Hasidim.