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Chaim Elazar Spira
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of the rebbes of the hasidic movement munkacz”. Today it says “rebbe of the hasidic munkacs dynasty”.
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Chaim Elazar Spira (December 17, 1868 – May 13, 1937) was one of the rebbes of the Hasidic movement Munkacs (pronounced Munkatsh; sometimes spelled Munkacz). The monument's spelling (see photo below) is without vowels, and supports both spellings of the city; likewise with the spellings of the family name: Spira vs.1
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one of the rebbes of the hasidic movement munkacz
Now
rebbe of the hasidic munkacs dynasty
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