where was r shlomo halberstam born
Solomon Halberstam (âShlomoâ), (born 1907, Bobowa, Pol.âdied Aug. 2, 2000, New York, N.Y., U.S.), Polish-born American religious leader who emigrated in the late 1940s to New York, where in Borough Park, a section of Brooklyn, he became the leader of the Bobov sect, a Hasidic group whose numbers had been greatly reduced by the Holocaust.