Schneersohn

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Rebbes of Chabad Shneur Zalman of Liadi (Alter Rebbe) Dovber Schneuri (Mitteler Rebbe) Menachem M. Schneersohn (Tzemach Tzedek) Shmuel Schneersohn (Rebbe Maharash) Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (Rebbe Rashab) Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (Rebbe Rayatz) Menachem M. Schneerson (the Rebbe)
Schneersohn family Chaim S. Z. of Liadi (1814–1880) Yitzchak Dovber of Liadi (1833–1910) Chana Schneerson (1880–1964) Chaya M. Schneersohn (d. 1860) Chaya M. Schneerson (1901–1988) Levi Y. Schneerson (1878–1944) Moshe Schneersohn (ca. 1784–before 1853) Sheina Horenstein (d. 1942) Shlomo Zalman Schneersohn (1830–1900) Shmaryahu Noah Schneersohn (1842–1924) Yehuda Leib Schneersohn (1808–1866)
Rabbonim Avraham Osdoba Chaim Gutnick Avraham Chaim Naeh Meir Ashkenazi Mordechai Ashkenazi Mordechai Gutnick Moshe Gutnick Pinhas Hirschprung Shneur Z. Fradkin Yaakov Schwei Yehuda K. Marlow Abraham Hecht Yitzchak Hendel Yosef Heller Yosef Y. Braun Zalman Dworkin Zelig Sharfstein Shmuel L. Medalia Shmarya Y. L. Medalia Sholom Rivkin
Mashpiim and scholars Aaron of Staroselye Herman Branover Yehuda Chitrik Manis Friedman Mendel Futerfas Yitzchak Ginsburgh Menachem Z. Greenglass Moshe Gutnick Moshe Havlin Zalman M. HaYitzchaki Aizel Homiler Simon Jacobson Yisroel Jacobson Yosef Y. Jacobson Yoel Kahn Abraham Y. Khein Yehoshua Mondshine Avraham C. Naeh Nissan Neminov Hillel Paritcher Ezra Schochet Adin Steinsaltz Shais Taub Shlomo Y. Zevin
Mazkirus and other leaders Leib Groner Jacob J. Hecht Chaim M. A. Hodakov Yehuda Krinsky Nissan Mindel Dovid Raskin Abraham Shemtov
Shluchim Menachem Brod Azriel Chaikin Shlomo Cunin Pinchus Feldman Gershon Garelik Yitzchok D. Groner Hanoch Hecht Gavriel Holtzberg Berel Lazar Shimon Lazaroff Chezki Lifshitz David Masinter Zalman I. Posner Menachem S. D. Raichik Aaron Raskin Arie Z. Raskin Shlomo Sawilowsky Mordechai Scheiner Abraham Shemtov Levi Shemtov Yehudah Teichtal Simcha Weinstein Manis Friedman
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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.

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.

• Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789 – 1866), the third Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe
• Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn (1834 – 1882), the fourth Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe
• Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (1860 – 1920), the fifth Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe
• Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn (1880 – 1950), the sixth Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe
• Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902 – 1994), the seventh Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe

• Rabbi Yehuda Leib Schneersohn (1811 – 1866), the second son of third Chabad and the founder and first rebbe of the Kopust-Chabad offshoot dynasty
• Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Schneersohn (1830 – 1900), the second rebbe of the Kopust-Chabad dynasty
• Rabbi Shmaryahu Noah Schneersohn (1842 – 1924), the third rebbe of the Kopust-Chabad dynasty
• Rabbi Chaim Schneur Zalman Schneersohn (d. 1879), the son of third Chabad and the founder and first rebbe of the Liadi-Chabad offshoot dynasty
• Rabbi Yitzchak Dovber Schneersohn, the second rebbe of the Liadi-Chabad dynasty

• 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

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