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Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson

Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson (1880–1950) was the sixth Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch chasidic movement. He is also known as the Frierdiker Rebbe.

Fall 2018

The Rebbe and the Professor

Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, Salo Wittmayer Baron, Ariel Evan Mayse

After the war, the great Jewish historian Salo Baron wrote to Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, for help with his work on the Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction. As Hannah Arendt suggested in a side note to Baron, the commission probably wasn't “kosher” enough for Schneersohn, but their exchange illuminates a dark historical moment.