Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Menachem Mendel Schneerson (Yiddish: מנחם מענדל שניאורסאהן; Modern Hebrew: מנחם מנדל שניאורסון; April 5, 1902 OS – June 12, 1994; AM 11 Nissan 5662 – 3 Tammuz 5754), known to adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was an Orthodox rabbi and the most recent Rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century. As leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, he took an insular Hasidic group that almost came to an end with the Holocaust and transformed it into one of the most influential movements in religious Jewry, with an international network of over 5,000 educational and social centers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Menachem Mendel Schneerson has received more than 1,843,767 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Menachem Mendel Schneerson is the 849th most popular religious figure (down from 826th in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 130th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Religious Figure.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the seventh Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism. He is most famous for his outreach efforts to non-Jews, and he is the author of the Tanya.