Personal Life and Family
In 1904, at age 17, Teitelbaum married Chavah née Horowitz, the daughter of Rabbi Abraham Chaim Horowitz, the Plontcher Rav. After her death in 1936, he remarried in 1937 the rabbi's 25 year old daughter Alte Faige née Shapiro from Czestochowa, Poland. He had three daughters from his first marriage: Esther, Rachel and Roysele. They all died in his lifetime: Esther died during childhood; Rachel died 6 months after she married her first cousin, Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum (II), the rabbi of Sighet; and Roysele (the only of his children to survive the holocaust), who married Lipa Teitelbaum, the Semihaya Rav, and died in 1953 in the US. His second wife did not have any children. Thus, whilst his second wife survived him, he was not survived by any children. This was the source of a succession dispute after his death.
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