Yehoshua Mondshine
Israeli rabbi (1947–2014) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yehoshua Mondshine[1] (Hebrew: יהושע מונדשיין; 1947–2014) was an Israeli rabbi, scholar, researcher and historian associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch, Hasidic movement. Mondshine worked as a librarian and bibliographer at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.[2][3]
Yehoshua Mondshine | |
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יהושע מונדשיין | |
Born | 1947 Tel Aviv, Israel |
Died | 2014 |
Occupation | Rabbi |
Organization | Chabad |
Known for | Bibliography |
Spouse | Rochel Leah Braufman |
Rabbi Mondshine authored over twenty works on Chabad Hasidic social and intellectual history,[2][4] and published a number of articles in various journals, both academic and rabbinic, some of them under the pseudonym Yehoshua D. Levanon.[2]
Mondshine's work on Chabad and general Hasidic historiography continued a tradition in Chabad from the nineteenth century where the Chabad movement published material in the spirit of critical academic historiography.[5]