(Grand Rabbi Pinchas Dovid Horowitz of Boston). Printed Wedding Invitation, issued for his daughter Frieda Gitel, to be wed to R. Yoseph Shmelke Brandwein (an “ilui” and descendant from the Stretiner Chassidic dynasty).

<<LIKELY THE EARLIEST CHASSIDIC WEDDING IN AMERICA.>> Rabbi Pinchas Dovid Horowitz (1876-1941) was the founder of the Boston Chassidic dynasty, one of the first Chassidic courts in the United States. Born in Jerusalem, he settled in Boston in 1915 and was the first Chassidic Rebbe to use an American city in his title. Subsequently the Bostoner Rebbe grew to become a dynamic force throughout New England and a vocal spokesperson across America for the traditional Chassidic way of life. In 1939 he relocated his congregation to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, remaining there until his death. His successors were his sons, Rabbi Moshe Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe of New York, and Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe of Boston and Har Nof, Jerusalem.