Tzvi LaTzaddik The founding
Admor of the dynasty was Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Spira. He was born in 1841 to Rabbi Dovid and Rochel Spira. He is commonly remembered as the
Tzvi LaTzaddik, the name of the
sefer he authored.
Rabbis Meir and Eliezer Spira The
Keren Yeshuah was succeeded by his son Rabbi Meir Spira, who continued to lead the court in Rzeszów (he had previously served as rabbi of Błażowa). Another son, Rabbi Eliezer Spira, served as rebbe of Ribatitch. They both were murdered in the Holocaust.
Rabbi Yisroel Spira Born in 1889, he was a son of the Keren Yeshuah. He served as the rebbe of
Istrik where he attracted many
chassidim, including followers of his father and grandfather (the Keren Yeshuah and Tzvi LaTzaddik). He survived the Holocaust in the
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and after the war, moved to the United States. There, he reestablished the Bluzhev chassidus in Brooklyn. He died in 1989 at the age of 100 and was buried on
Mount of Olives.
Rabbi Tzvi Yehudah Spira of
Bobov, Rabbi
Shmuel Dovid Halberstam of
Klausenburg, and Rabbi Tzvi Yehudah Spira of Bluzhev Born in Germany in 1936 into the Kushitzki family, his father was killed in the Holocaust. He reunited with his mother after World War II who went on to marry Rabbi Yisroel Spira, hence his surname being changed from Kushitzki to Spira. After his step-father's death, he was appointed the next rebbe of Bluzhev. He also served as
nasi (president) of
Kolel Chibas Yerushalayim. He died in 2015 and was buried on
Mount of Olives. At his funeral, it was announced that his successor would be his oldest son Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Spira, and will lead his
bais medrash in Borough Park.
Present-day Rabbi Tzvi Yehudah Spira was succeeded by his three sons, Rabbis Avraham Yaakov, Moshe Menachem, and Yehoshua Yosef Spira. While the oldest son, Rabbi Avraham Yaakov, went on to lead from the same
beis midrash as his father and step-grandfather, the second and third sons led their own congregations, under the names "BLUZHEV" and "Bluzhev-Ribatitch", respectively. == Lineage of Bluzhev dynasty ==