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'''Schneersohn''' (or '''Schneerson''') is a [[Jewish surname]] used by many of the descendants of Rabbi [[Shneur Zalman of Liadi]], the first [[Rebbe]] of the [[Chabad-Lubavitch]] [[Hasidic]] movement.

==Origins==
Rabbi [[Shneur Zalman of Liadi]] (1745 – 1812), founded the [[Chabad]] [[Hasidic]] movement in 1775.<ref name="Barry">[http://www.leagle.com/decision/19872113650FSupp1463_11879 Agudas Chasidei Chabad of United States v. Gourary NO. CV-85-2909].</ref> His son, Rabbi [[Dovber Schneuri]] (1773 – 1827), the second Chabad Rebbe, adopted the "Schneuri" surname after his father's first name. The first to use the "Schneersohn" surname was Rabbi [[Menachem Mendel Schneersohn]], the nephew/son-in-law of Rabbi Dovber and the grandson of Rabbi Schneur Zalman and the third Chabad Rebbe.

== People surnamed Schneersohn or Schneerson ==
===Chabad Rebbes===
* Rabbi [[Menachem Mendel Schneersohn]] (1789 – 1866), the third Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe
* Rabbi [[Shmuel Schneersohn]] (1834 – 1882), the fourth Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe
* Rabbi [[Sholom Dovber Schneersohn]] (1860 – 1920), the fifth Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe
* Rabbi [[Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn]] (1880 – 1950), the sixth Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe
* Rabbi [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]] (1902 – 1994), the seventh Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe

===Rebbes of Chabad offshoots===
* Rabbi [[Yehuda Leib Schneersohn]] (1811 – 1866), the second son of third Chabad and the founder and first rebbe of the [[Kopust|Kopust-Chabad]] offshoot dynasty
* Rabbi [[Shlomo Zalman Schneersohn]] (1830 – 1900), the second rebbe of the Kopust-Chabad dynasty
* Rabbi [[Shmaryahu Noah Schneersohn]] (1842 – 1924), the third rebbe of the Kopust-Chabad dynasty
* Rabbi [[Chaim Schneur Zalman Schneersohn]] (d. 1879), the son of third Chabad and the founder and first rebbe of the [[Liadi (Hasidic dynasty)|Liadi-Chabad]] offshoot dynasty
* Rabbi [[Yitzchak Dovber Schneersohn]], the second rebbe of the Liadi-Chabad dynasty

===Others===
* [[Chaya Mushka Schneersohn]] (d. 1860), the wife of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the third Chabad rebbe
* Rabbi [[Levi Yitzchak Schneerson]] (1878 – 1944), a Kabbalist, rabbi of [[Dnepropetrovsk]] and the father of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Chabad rebbe
* [[Chana Schneerson]] (1880 – 1964), the mother of the seventh Chabad rebbe.
* Rabbi [[Isaac Schneersohn]] (1879 or 1881(?) – 1969), a French rabbi, industrialist, founder of the first Holocaust Archives and Memorial.
* Antoine Ethan-Lev Baduel Schneersohn Salzman (1971 – ), President and CEO of [[Radio FG]], radio presenter, the first Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe dynasty
* Jean-Etienne Yaakov-Lev Baduel Schneersohn Salzman (1978 – ), CEO of [[Radio FG]], the first Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe dynasty
* Rabbi [[Schneour Zalman Schneersohn]] (1898 – 1980), a French Hasidic Rabbi.
* [[Chaya Mushka Schneersohn]] (1901 – 1988), the wife of Rabbi Menachem Mendel, the seventh Chabad rebbe
* [[Menucha Rochel Slonim]] (1798 – 1888), the daughter of Dovber, the second rebbe. Leader and pioneer of the Hebron community in Israel.
* [[Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky]] (1914 – 1984), an Israeli poet, widely known as Zelda
* [[Nathan Schneersohn]] (1881 – 1937), a Russian Menshevik revolutionary and Soviet museum curator

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