Koidanov (also spelled
Koidenov) is a
Hasidic dynasty founded by
Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Perlow (alternately: Solomon Ḥayyim Perlow) in 1833 in the town of Koidanov (present-day
Dzyarzhynsk,
Belarus). According to the
YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Koidanov was the smallest of the three
Lithuanian Hasidic dynasties, the others being
Slonim and
Karlin-Stolin. On the eve of World War II, its centers of influence were in the regions of Koidanov and
Minsk. After its
Rebbes and most of its Hasidim were murdered in the
Holocaust, the dynasty was re-established in 1948 in
Tel Aviv, where it thrives to this day.