Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe and a towering 20th-century Hasidic leader known for revitalizing Chabad-Lubavitch and promoting global Jewish outreach and education.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hasidic Rebbe
Jewish religious leader
human
rabbi
alsoKnownAs Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson NERFINISHED
The Lubavitcher Rebbe NERFINISHED
The Rebbe NERFINISHED
awardReceived Congressional Gold Medal NERFINISHED
burialPlace Old Montefiore Cemetery NERFINISHED
Queens NERFINISHED
citizenship United States of America
surface form: United States
commemoratedBy Education and Sharing Day, USA NERFINISHED
countryOfBirth Russian Empire
dateAwarded 1994-11-02
dateOfBirth 1902-04-18
dateOfDeath 1994-06-12
denomination Hasidic Judaism NERFINISHED
educatedAt Humboldt University of Berlin
surface form: University of Berlin

rabbinical studies in Eastern Europe
École Spéciale des Travaux Publics NERFINISHED
endTime 1994-06-12
era 20th century
ethnicGroup Ashkenazi Jews NERFINISHED
familyName Schneerson NERFINISHED
father Levi Yitzchak Schneerson NERFINISHED
fieldOfStudy Hasidic philosophy
Jewish law
Talmud NERFINISHED
engineering
founded worldwide network of Chabad Houses
givenName Menachem Mendel NERFINISHED
headquartersLocation 770 Eastern Parkway NERFINISHED
Crown Heights, Brooklyn NERFINISHED
ideology emphasis on every Jew’s intrinsic value
integration of secular knowledge with Torah
messianic consciousness in daily life
influenced Baalei teshuva movement NERFINISHED
Chabad-Lubavitch movement NERFINISHED
modern Jewish outreach models
knownFor Jewish education initiatives
extensive correspondence
global Jewish outreach
leadership of post-Holocaust Jewish rebuilding
public talks and farbrengens
revitalizing Chabad-Lubavitch
sending emissaries (shluchim) worldwide
languageSpoken English
French
Hebrew
Russian
Yiddish
mother Chana Schneerson NERFINISHED
movement Chabad outreach movement
nationality American
notableWork Ten Mitzvah Campaigns (Mivtzaim) NERFINISHED
office Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch NERFINISHED
originalNationality Russian
placeOfBirth Mykolaiv NERFINISHED
Russian Empire
placeOfDeath New York City
United States of America
surface form: United States
positionHeld seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe NERFINISHED
precededBy Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn NERFINISHED
religion Judaism
religiousMovement Chabad-Lubavitch NERFINISHED
religiousTitle Rabbi
Rebbe
residence Crown Heights, Brooklyn NERFINISHED
New York City
signatureWork global shlichus (emissary) system NERFINISHED
spouse Chaya Mushka Schneerson NERFINISHED
startTime 1951-01-17
supported Jewish day schools
Mitzvah campaigns
campus outreach
wrote Igrot Kodesh NERFINISHED
Likkutei Sichos NERFINISHED
Maamarim (Hasidic discourses) NERFINISHED

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