The group originated in a city called Szaplonca (Yiddish: Spinka), in Máramaros County, Kingdom of Hungary (today Săpânţa, Romania).

Another son, Naftali Weiss, the Bilker Rebbe, is a prominent subject in the Auschwitz Album of rare photographs taken at the death camp.

[1] After World War II, the group was divided among many Rebbes, descendants of the Imrei Yosef.

Spinka Rebbes can be found in Williamsburg, Borough Park, Flatbush, Kiryas Joel, Monsey, Bnei Brak, London, Antwerp, throughout Israel, and Europe.

In 2009, Rabbi Naftali Tzi Weisz and five other Spinka members pleaded guilty to charges in what prosecutors called "a decade-long tax fraud and money-laundering scheme".