When Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum, the Grand Rebbe of the Sighet Hasidic dynasty, died in 1904, he was succeeded by his oldest son, Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum. A small fraction of his Hasidim regarded his second son, Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, as the appropriate heir. Rabbi Yoel left Sziget, and on the 8th of September 1905, he settled in Szatmárnémeti (in Yiddish: Satmar), where he began to attract a small following, in addition to his few original supporters. Hungarian journalist Dezső Schön, who researched the Teitelbaum rabbis in the 1930s, wrote that Rabbi Yoel started referring to himself as the "Rebbe of Satmar" at that time.