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Mrs. Chana Schneerson of 1414 President Street, Brooklyn, mother of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Hassidic Lubavitcher movement that sends volunteers to countries where Jewish...
- Early Years and Marriage
- Yekaterinoslav
- Arrest and Exile
- Rabbi Yiztchak Levy’s Death
- Escaping Russia
- Rebbetzin Chana’s Passing
Chana Yanovsky was born in 1880 in Nikolayev, Ukraine, the eldest of four children. Her father, Meir Shlomo Yanovksy, was the chief rabbi of the city. Chana married Rabbi Levy Yitzchak Schneerson at the age of 20. Rabbi Levy YItzchak was the great grandson of the Tzemach Tzedek, the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, and a renowned Torah and Kabbalah scholar...
When Chana was 27 years old, her husband became the rabbi of Yekaterinoslav, a Ukrainian city known today as Dnipropetrovsk. Rabbi Levy Yitzchak served as rabbi for 32 years while Chana earned a name for herself as Rebbetzin. An affable woman, she welcomed members of the community into their home and visited them in their own homes, especially Jewi...
In the Soviet Union, Rabbi Levy Yitzchak and Chana worked tirelessly to enable Jews to be able to practice Judaism. One standout example is how Rabbi Levy Yitzchak fought the local authorities to allow Jews to bake matzah for Passover. While he succeeded in doing so, he was arrested about a week before Passover by the NKVD. He was charged with anti...
In 1944, a short time before Rabbi Levy Yitzchak’s sentence of exile was over, his health began to deteriorate. His friends in the nearby city of Almaty worked tirelessly to gather thousands of rubles to pay for his early release. It took six weeks, but they were finally able to secure release documents. The rabbi and his wife left Chi’ile for Alma...
After Rabbi Levy Yitzchak died, Rebbetzin Chana was left with no family. She desperately wanted to be near her eldest son, Rabbi Menachem Mendel. She surreptitiously traveled from Almaty to a small suburb near Moscow, taking with her the manuscripts Rabbi Levy Yitzchak had written during his exile. With the help of a small group of devoted Hassidim...
In 1964, at the age of 84, Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson passed away. She was buried at the Chabad cemetery in Queens, NY, with some 5,000 people attending her funeral. After her death, the Rebbe was often heard saying how the three Torah commandments entrusted to women are the making of bread for the Sabbath, ritual purity in marriage, and lighting S...
- Gil Smolinski
Chana Schneerson (née Yanovsky; 1880–1964) was the wife of Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, a Chabad Hasidic rabbi in Yekatrinoslav, Ukraine and the mother of the seventh Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Sep 9, 2021 · Our family’s cubicle was next door to that of Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, the Rebbe’s mother. And that is how we got to know her. She was able to immigrate to New York in 1947, but we settled first in France and then in England and didn’t arrive in America until later, when I was already eleven.
Sep 23, 2020 · Rebbetzin Chana would eventually make her way to New York in 1947, spending her remaining years in close proximity to her son. The Rebbe, who had not seen his mother in almost twenty years, bestowed the greatest honor to his mother and would visit her every day until her passing in 1964.
Sep 20, 2023 · Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, a feminine role model of Jewish activism and proponent of Jewish scholarship, mother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and wife of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok, is being remembered today, on her yahrzeit.
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This concise biography of Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, mother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, gives a glimpse of her remarkable legacy. The Rebbetzin’s story is told through fascinating text, historic pictures and handwritten letters.
