Rare unique item: Album of Pictures of the Schneerson Family, which belonged to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, R' ...

Rare unique item: Album of Pictures of the Schneerson Family, which belonged to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, R' Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

The buyer will receive an original signed and dated letter from a Lubavitch Chassid who is writing that this Album was owned by the Rebbe.

20 old pictures.

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson (1880-1950), son and successor of Rabbi Shalom Dovber of Lubavitch. As a young man, his father appointed him director of the Tomchei Temimim Yeshivos. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak succeeded his father as Rebbe to large numbers of Lubavitcher chassidim in Russia and around the world and established an extensive network of underground Yeshivos and Talmud Torah schools operating under the atheistic communist Russian regime, despite the risks involved. He was arrested for these activities in 1927, but released after international intervention on his behalf, and left for Riga, Latvia in 1928. In 1932 he moved to Warsaw and then to Otwock in Poland, and was miraculously smuggled out from German-occupied Warsaw to New York in 1940. In America, he continued his efforts to strengthen Orthodox Judaism through the establishment of Yeshivos and schools and through a network of representatives in communities across the country.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), was one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the twentieth century. He was born in the town of Nikolaev, Russia to R. Levi Yitzchak and Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson. Known as a great genius, by the time he was seventeen, he had mastered the entire Talmud, and went on to receive Semicha from R. Yosef Rosen; the Rogatchover Gaon and R. Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg (Sreidei Aish). In 1928, he married the daughter of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, whom he ultimately succeeded as Rebbe. In that capacity, he tirelessly dedicated himself to world Jewish outreach and he succeeded in establishing Chabad centers all over the world.

Album Size: 22 x 16.5 cm

Condition: The pictures are in very fine condition, the album has tape on the spine.