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Chasidim of Sochaczew
[Yiddish, Sochachever Chasidim] - A Chasidic
group founded in 1870 by Avraham Bornstein (1839-1910), the
son-in-law
of Menachem Mendel Morgenshtern of Kock, who had studied
with Henoch
Henich Cohen Levin of Aleksandrow.
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Bornstein had previously served as a rabbi in
Nasielsk and Sochaczew. He wrote two commentaries on
Kabbalistic texts,
and emphasized the study of the Talmud in his teachings. He
founded a
yeshiva in Sochaczew. After his death, his son Shmuel
(1855-1926) became
tzaddik; he spent the last years of his life in Zgierz.
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His son David (1878-1942) succeeded him. David
increased the number of his father's followers, and taught
in Wyszogrod,
Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Otwock, Sochaczew, Pabianice and Lodz.
He was
killed by the Nazis in the Warsaw ghetto.
(A.C., H.W./CM)
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