Shlomo Zalman Schneersohn

Shlomo Zalman Schneersohn (1830 – 1900) was a Ukrainian Habad Hasidic rabbi who was the second leader of Kopust Hasidism from 1866 to his death in 1900.[1]

He was the son of Yehuda Leib Schneersohn, who founded the Kopust dynasty. He succeeded his father immediately following his death in 1866. He is the author of the 1902 text Magen Avot.[2][3] He had a son Yehuda Leib.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1942). Introduction to Hayom Yom.
  2. Karlinsky, Nahum (2007). The Dawn of Hasidic—Haredi Historiography. Modern Judaism, 2007 27(1):20-46; doi:10.1093/mj/kjl010
  3. Schneersohn, Solomon Zalman (1902). Magen avot: Derushim 'al Sidre Parashiyot ha-Torah u-Mo'adim. Berdichev: H.Y.Sheftil

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