placed under police surveillance.But he soon escaped to Austria, andsettled in 1841 in the Bukovina, in the townlet of Sadagora, nearChernovitz, where he established his new "court." Many Hasidim in Russianow made their pilgrimage abroad to their beloved Tzaddik; in addition,new partisans were won among the hasidic masses of Galicia and theRabbi Israel died in 1850, but the "Sadagora dynasty" branchedout rapidly, and proved a serious handicap to modern progress during thestormy epoch of emancipation... read more