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Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, (1878-1944), was a Chabad

Chabad-Lubavitch

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Hasidic

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rabbi

Rabbi

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in Yekatrinoslav, Ukraine

Ukraine

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. He was the father of the seventh and last Chabad-Lubavitch

Chabad-Lubavitch

Rebbe

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, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Menachem Mendel Schneerson , known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or just the Rebbe among his followers, was a prominent Hasidic rabbi who was the seventh and last Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. He was fifth in a direct paternal line to the third Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Menachem Mendel...

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Schneerson was born on the 18th day of Nissan, 5638 (1878) in the town of Podrovnah (near Gomel) to Rabbi Baruch Schneur and Zelda Rachel Schneerson. His great-great grandfather was the third Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn

Menachem Mendel Schneersohn

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of Lubavitch.

In 1900, Levi Yitzchak married Chana Yanovski, whose father, Rabbi Meir Shlomo, was the Rabbi of the Ukrainian city of Nikolaiev

Mykolaiv

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. In 1902, their eldest son, Menachem Mendel was born. He was later to become the Rebbe

Rebbe

Rebbe , which means master, teacher, or mentor, is a Yiddish word derived from the Hebrew word Rabbi. It often refers to the leader of a Hasidic Jewish movement...

of Lubavitch

Chabad-Lubavitch

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Schneerson lived in Nikolaiev until 1909, when he was appointed to serve as the Rabbi of Yekatrinoslav. In 1939 he was arrested by the communist regime for his fearless stance against the Party's efforts to eradicate Jewish learning and practice in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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. After more than a year of torture and interrogations in Stalin

Joseph Stalin

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's prisons, he was sentenced to exile to a remote village Chiali in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

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. Shortly before his death, Levi Yitzchak was able to move to Almaty

Almaty

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, where he was warmly welcomed by the small Lubavitcher community

Jews in Kazakhstan

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. There he died in 1944. Rabbi Levi Yitzchak was buried at a cemetery in Alamty. Very close to the cemetery a Chabad Lubavitch synagogue has been built, and is named in his honour.

Schneerson was a distinguished Kabbalist

Kabbalah

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. Some of his writings have been published under the name Likkutei Levi Yitschok. Most of it, however, was burned or confiscated by the Soviet authorities, and has yet to be returned to the Chabad movement.

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