YITSKHOK SHNEURSON (ISAAC
SCHNEERSOHN) (1881-June 24, 1969)
He was
born in Homel (Gomel), Byelorussia, the son of a rabbi and a descendant of the
Lubavitcher Schneersons. In 1906 he served
as a state rabbi in Gorodnye (Horodnye), Chernigov region and in 1908 in the
city of Chernigov. He was one of the
well-known Jewish intercessors in Tsarist Russia. In 1917 he served for a short time as mayor
of Ryazan, before departing for Paris where he became a major industrialist. During the German occupation, he joined the
resistance. He was the principal initiator
of the great monument
to the “unknown Jewish martyr” in Paris and of the Centre de documentation Juive Contemporaine (CDJC) which
published a series of important works in French and English on the Holocaust in
Europe. In book form: Lebn un kamf fun di yidn in tsarishn rusland,
1905-1917, zikhroynes (Life and struggle of the Jews in Tsarist Russia,
1905-1917, memoirs) (Paris: Poliglot, 1968), 645 pp. He died in Paris.
Sources: Mortkhe Tsanin, in Letste nayes (Tel Aviv) (December 6, 1968); Arn Alperin, in Idishe tsaytung (Buenos Aires) (August
3, 1969).
Berl Cohen
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