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The Bibliophile Who Reshaped American Jewry

JL;DR SUMMARY David Eliezrie's biography, "Undaunted," chronicles the impactful journey of Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, as he challenged prevailing attitudes about American Jewry and worked to transform the nation into a bastion of Torah learning. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish EducationJewish IdentityOrthodox JudaismAmerican JewryJewish Day SchoolsLubavitchJewish AssimilationYosef Yitzchak SchneersohnReform And Conservative Movements

Places mentioned

Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Lubavitchs Frierdiker Rebbewho was then simply the Rebbehad just moved to Warsaw, and he tasked three yeshiva boys with unpacking his personal library, which was enormous: twelve large crates of seforim, which the students would use to fill up 12 bookcases."
United States
"his biography of the Frierdiker Rebbe, subtitled How the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, Saved Russian Jewry, Reimagined American Judaism, and Ignited a Global Jewish Renaissance."

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