RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

1902 - 1994

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Menachem Mendel Schneerson (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 a Russian-American 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 2,077,485 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Menachem Mendel Schneerson is the 763rd most popular religious figure (up from 841st in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 123rd 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.

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  • 2.73

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Menachem Mendel Schneerson ranks 763 out of 3,187. Before him are John the Merciful, Theophilus of Antioch, Ilia II of Georgia, Bruno of Querfurt, Leonard of Noblac, and Karmapa. After him are Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Margaret of Hungary, Sasan, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, John Henry Newman, and Romuald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Menachem Mendel Schneerson ranks 41. Before him are Émile Benveniste, Alexander Luria, Theodore Schultz, Reinhard Gehlen, Günther Anders, and Prince George, Duke of Kent. After him are Alexandre Kojève, Felix Wankel, Max Ophüls, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Antonia Brico, and Luis Barragán. Among people deceased in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson ranks 46. Before him are Niels Kaj Jerne, Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, Witold Lutosławski, Fernando Rey, Pujie, and Roger Wolcott Sperry. After him are Raul Julia, Jessica Tandy, Roland Ratzenberger, Jack Kirby, Matt Busby, and Roberto Eduardo Viola.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Menachem Mendel Schneerson ranks 116 out of 1,365. Before him are Lee Strasberg (1901), Boris Shcherbina (1919), Ivan Paskevich (1782), Stepan Makarov (1848), Alexander Archipenko (1887), and Sofia Rotaru (1947). After him are Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Alexander Dovzhenko (1894), Otto Preminger (1905), Milla Jovovich (1975), and Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Ukraine

Among religious figures born in Ukraine, Menachem Mendel Schneerson ranks 4. Before him are Baal Shem Tov (1700), Nachman of Breslov (1772), and Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580). After him are Jacob Frank (1726), Filaret (1929), Andrey Sheptytsky (1865), Paisius Velichkovsky (1722), Josyf Slipyj (1892), Theodosius of Kiev (1029), Anthony of Kiev (983), and Hilarion of Kiev (990).

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