Schneersohn
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- Origins
- People surnamed Schneersohn or Schneerson
- Chabad Rebbes
- Rebbes of Chabad offshoots
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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. 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.