Frierdiker Rebbe - Rav Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn

Rav Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (June 9, 1880 - January 28, 1950), also known as the Frierdiker Rebbe, was the sixth Rebbe of Chabad Lubavitch. He was one of the most remarkable Jewish personalities of the twentieth century. In his seventy years, he encountered every conceivable challenge to Jewish life: the persecutions and pogroms of Czarist Russia, Communism's war on Judaism, and melting-pot America's apathy and scorn toward the Torah and its precepts. The Rebbe was unique in that he not only experienced these chapters in Jewish history - as did many of his generation - but that, as a leader of his people, he actually faced them down, often single-handedly, and prevailed.