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Ben Zion Halberstam

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “born in bikofsk in 1874 to his father grand rabbi shlomo halberstam”. Today it says “second rebbe of bobov”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Polish rabbi (1874–1941)”. It now reads “Polish rabbi (1874–1941) Rabbi”.
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Ben Zion Halberstam , (1874–1941), was born in Bikofsk in 1874 to his father Grand Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905) of Bobov . At the age of thirty-one he succeeded his father as the second Rebbe of Bobov. He was a scion of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz (1798–1876). He wrote a commentary on the Torah called Kedushas Tzion . Rabbi Ben Zion was murdered by the Nazis in 1941, and was succeeded by his son Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1907–2000), who rebuilt Bobov in the United States .1

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “born in bikofsk in 1874 to his father grand rabbi shlomo halberstam”. Today it says “second rebbe of bobov”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Polish rabbi (1874–1941)”. It now reads “Polish rabbi (1874–1941) Rabbi”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

born in bikofsk in 1874 to his father grand rabbi shlomo halberstam

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second rebbe of bobov

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