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Schneersohn

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Schneersohn (or Schneerson) is a Jewish surname used by many of the descendants of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the first Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.

Origins

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Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745 – 1812), founded the Chabad Hasidic movement in 1775.[1] His son, Rabbi Dovber Schneuri (1773 – 1827), the second Chabad Rebbe, adopted the "Schneuri" surname after his father's first name. The first to use the "Schneersohn" surname was Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the nephew/son-in-law of Rabbi Dovber and the grandson of Rabbi Schneur Zalman and the third Chabad Rebbe.

People surnamed Schneersohn or Schneerson

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Chabad Rebbes

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Rebbes of Chabad offshoots

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Others

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  • Chaya Mushka Schneersohn (d. 1860), the wife of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the third Chabad rebbe
  • Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson (1878 – 1944), a Kabbalist, rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk and the father of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Chabad rebbe
  • Chana Schneerson (1880 – 1964), the mother of the seventh Chabad rebbe.
  • Rabbi Isaac Schneersohn (1879 or 1881(?) – 1969), a French rabbi, industrialist, founder of the first Holocaust Archives and Memorial.
  • Antoine Ethan-Lev Baduel Schneersohn Salzman (1971 – ), President and CEO of Radio FG, radio presenter, the first Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe dynasty
  • Jean-Etienne Yaakov-Lev Baduel Schneersohn Salzman (1978 – ), CEO of Radio FG, the first Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe dynasty
  • Rabbi Schneour Zalman Schneersohn (1898 – 1980), a French Hasidic Rabbi.
  • Chaya Mushka Schneersohn (1901 – 1988), the wife of Rabbi Menachem Mendel, the seventh Chabad rebbe
  • Sheina Horenstein (d. 1942), born Sheina Schneersohn, the daughter of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, the sixth rebbe
  • Menucha Rochel Slonim (1798 – 1888), the daughter of Dovber, the second rebbe. Leader and pioneer of the Hebron community in Israel.
  • Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky (1914 – 1984), an Israeli poet, widely known as Zelda
  • Nathan Schneersohn (1881 – 1937), a Russian Menshevik revolutionary and Soviet museum curator

References

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