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Yitzchok Ungar’s Tunes Shook the Heavens 

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Yitzchok Ungar, a revered Vizhnitzer chassid and composer, left a profound impact on chassidic music before his recent passing. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Holocaust SurvivorsJewish SpiritualityChassidusJewish ComposersNiggunimChassidic MusicHasidic CultureSinger SongwriterVizhnitzYitzchok Ungar

Places mentioned

Bnei Brak, Central District, Israel
"the passing of Vizhnitzer chassid and prolific composer Rabbi Yitzchok Ungar of Bnei Brak."
Bratislava, Slovakia
"who was born in 1939 in prewar Pressburg (Bratislava), the city of the Chasam Sofer dynasty."
Yerushalayim, Jerusalem, Israel
"When he left Yerushalayim for Bnei Brak to learn in the yeshivah of Rav Shmuel HaLevi Wosner."

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