Chana Schneerson
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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.
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Born | Chana Yanovsky December 30, 1880 |
Died | September 12, 1964(1964-09-12) (aged 83) Brooklyn, New York |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
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Chana Schneerson's grandfather was Abraham David Lavut, a composer of Jewish literature upon which Chabadic prayer books are based (including the Siddur Im Dach).