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Schneersohn, Isaac, 1881-1969


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    • Shneurson, Yitsḥoḳ, 1881-1969
    • Sheneurson, Yitsḥaḳ, 1881-1969

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    • found: Lebn un ḳamf fun Yidn in Tsarishn Rusland 1905-1917, 1968:t.p. (Yitsḥoḳ Shneurson [part voc.]) added t.p. (Isaac Schneersohn [in rom.])
    • found: Israel Union Catalog, Sept. 9, 2005(Shneʼurson, Yitsḥoḳ, 1881-1969)
    • found: Exposition: les Juifs dans la lutte contre l'Hitlerisme, [1965]:Avant-propos (Isaac Schneersohn, President of Centre de documentation juive contemporaine)
    • found: Wikipedia, viewed February 24, 2022Isaac Schneersohn (Isaac Schneersohn (1879 or 1881-1969) was a French rabbi, industrialist, and the founder of the first Holocaust Archives and Memorial. He emigrated from Ukraine to France after the First World War. In 1943 while under Italian wartime occupation, Schneersohn founded a documentation center at his home in Grenoble with representatives from 40 Jewish organizations. The center moved to Paris at Liberation and became the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation. Schneersohn remained President of the CDJC and editor of its Revue until his death in 1969. He was born in Kamenetz-Podolsk, currently in the Ukraine, in 1879 or 1881. He served as a crown rabbi in Gorodnya and Chernigov in northern Ukraine. He was active both socially and politically, becoming involved in community affairs and education, as well as becoming a council member and deputy mayor in Ryazan as a member of the moderate liberal party. He emigrated to France in 1920 where he often hosted Revisionist Zionists like himself. Schneersohn was Director Delegate of the Société Anonyme de Travaux Métalliques in Paris. He founded the documentation center CDJC on April 28, 1943 while in Grenoble. Without knowing whether he or any of the 40 delegates of Jewish organizations he invited would even survive the war, Schneersohn was motivated by a desire to accumulate and preserve materials and to write about everything that was happening, as building blocks for historians who would come later. He moved the CDJC to Paris in August, 1944, and remained its director until his death. When World War II broke out, he left Paris for Bordeaux, with his family. In 1941, he settled in Mussidan in the Dordogne.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Schneersohn

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    • 2005-09-09: new
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