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Pre 1917: Cruel and Crumbling Empire
The end of the Czarist empire heralds a new evil.
As the Czarist Russian Empire breathed its last, the fifth Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneersohn (1860-1920), continued his predecessors’ leading role in Jewish communal affairs. He spearheaded the 1905 matzah campaign for Jewish soldiers in the Far East and played a crucial part in the defense of Mendel Beilis. For more than a century, the White Russian village of Lubavitch served as the cradle of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, but World War I forced Rabbi Sholom DovBer to relocate east, to the city of Rostov-on-Don. Rabbi Sholom DovBer continued his work as the Russian Revolution engulfed the country, laying the groundwork for the terrible chapter ahead.
The end of the Czarist empire heralds a new evil
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The Life and Writings of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson—Part One
To study the writings of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, father of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, is to realize that his entire life was an extended meditation on the mysterious entanglement of body and soul . . .
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In 1913 the Russian government conspired to accuse an innocent Jew of ritual murder
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During the Russo-Japanese War, tens of thousands of Jewish conscripts found themselves in China. Collaborating with the imperial Russian government, the fifth rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch instigated a campaign to provide them with Passover matzah.
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The Jews in Exile
We close this series on the history of the Jews in exile by looking at the final century of Jewish life in Czarist Russia prior to the 1917 Communist Revolution.
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The mother of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson penned these stories in her diary
I would like to record several of the episodes that I remember. There are many other and greater episodes, yet according to my understanding, it is the small incidents that reveal the greatness and the loftiness of his soul.
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From the memoirs of the Rebbe's mother, Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson.
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‘Early Years’ comprises 550 pages of insight-producing documents and photographs
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A turbulent history of young Jewish conscripts
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