The Tsemah Tzedek Family Tree

[22] Menahem Mendel SCHNEURSOHN, the Tsemah Tzedek, (b. 29 Elul 5549 (20 Sep. 1789) Leozna, Poland, d. 13 Nissan 5626 (4 Mar. 1866)) Became Third leader of Chabad shortly after death of his father-in-law. He saved thousands of children from conscription in the Russian army. He wrote many works including Tsemah Tsedek, a collection of commentary and responsa, to which he lent his name.

Menahem Mendel SCHNEURSOHN first married (1802 or 1803 Leozna, Poland) his cousin [13] Rabbanit Chaya Mushka SHNEURI daughter of the Admour Haemtsahi. They had fourteen children:

• [30] Baruch Shalom SCHNEERSOHN (b. 1803, d. 1868 Lubavitch) m. Radzia.
  • [85] Mordechai SCHNEURSOHN (b. 1835)
  • [86] Rabbi Levi Yitzchak SCHNEURSOHN (b. 1878 Podrovnah near Gomel, d. 1944 in exile in interior of Russia). Married (1900) Sima whose father, Rabbi Meir Shmlomo was the Rabbi of Nikolaiyev.
    • Rabbi Boruch Schneur Zalman SCHNEURSOHN (b. 24 Tammuz, 1853, d. 29 Tevet circa. 1926-28) Married (winter 1870-1) Zelda Rachel daughter of Rabbi Zalman Chaikin of Padobranka. Married a second time (19 Cheshvan 1912) Rivkah Devorah.
      • Rabbi Levi Yitzchak SCHNEURSOHN (b. 1878 Podrovnah near Gomel, d. 1944 in exile in interior of Russia). Married (1900) Chana Yonovski whose father, Rabbi Meir Shmlomo was the Rabbi of Nikolaiyev.
        • Rabbi Menachem Mendel SCHNEERSON (b. 18 Apr. 1902, d. 12 June 1994), the seventh and last Rebbe of Chabad Lubavitch.
    • Rabbi Menachem Mendel SCHNEURSOHN. Rabbi of Repka.
      • Rabbi Schneur Zalman SCHNEURSOHN. Rabbi in Paris.
      • Daughter SCHNEURSOHN married Rabbi Yehudah EBER, Rosh Yeshivah of Tomchei Tmimim Warsaw/Otwock.
  • [87] Rivka SCHNEURSOHN

• [31] Yehuda Leib SCHNEERSOHN (b. 1811, d. 1866)
  • [88] Shlomo Zalman SCHNEERSOHN (b. 1830)
  • [89] Shalom (Dov Baer) Dover SCHNEERSOHN (b. 1866)
  • [90] Shmary Noach SCHNEERSOHN (b. 1857) m. [84] Esther Liba SCHNEURSOHN
  • Rachel SCHNEERSOHN m. Monish MONISZON
  • [91] Yitzchak (Dov Baer) Dover SCHNEERSOHN (b. 1826)
  • daughter SCHNEERSOHN m. [34] Yaacov SCHNEERSOHN (****This cannot be correct!)
    She remarried Levi Yitzchak GUTERMAN (d. 31 Dec. 1904)
  • Shterna SCHNEERSOHN m. [35] Rabbi Maran Samuel SCHNEERSOHN

• Chaim SHNEUR SCHNEERSOHN (b. 1813, d. 19 Dec. 1879)

• [32] Yisrael Noach (B'Zvur) SCHNEERSOHN (b. 1816) first married [29] Sarah Freida BUNIM.
  • [81] Avraham B'Zvur SCHNEURSOHN
  • [82] Shneur Dover SCHNEURSOHN
  • Sheina SCHNEURSOHN m. Tzvi SHEINBERG
  • [83] Perla Dvorah SCHNEURSOHN m. [77] Shneur ZALMANSON
  • [84] Esther Liba SCHNEURSOHN m. [90] Shmary Noach SCHNEURSOHN
  [32] Yisrael Noach (B'Zvur) SCHNEERSOHN remarried Chana Chisha (Chaykeh) SCHNEERSOHN
  • [76] Shterna SCHNEERSOHN m. [97] Shenur Zalman Aharon SCHNEERSOHN
  • Moshe SCHNEERSOHN
  • Yaacov SCHNEERSOHN
  • Nachum SCHNEERSOHN

• [33] Yosef Yitzchak SCHNEERSOHN (b. 1809) m. Chanah TWERSKY daughter of  Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel TWERSKY  the Cherkasser Rav (who was the son of Rabbi Mordechai TWERSKY of Chernobyl, son of Rabbi Menachem Nochum TWERSKY of Chernobyl (Nochum of Chernobyl), the predecessor of many Chassidic Dynasties---Skvira, Rachmistrivka, Tolna, Hornisteipel, and others).
  • [92] Shneur Zalman Mordechai SCHNEERSOHN m. [78] Pearl ZALMANSON
  • [93] Nachum Dover SCHNEERSOHN
  • [94] Aharon Moshe SCHNEERSOHN m. [103] Sarah Batya OYERBACH
  • [95] Sheina Bracha SCHNEERSOHN
  • [96] Sterna Sarah SCHNEERSOHN m. [98] Shalom Dover SCHNEERSOHN

• [34] Yaacov SCHNEERSOHN (d. Tultzin) first married the [59] daughter of [21] Rachael SHNEURSON and Moshe Tzvi FUNDMINSKY.
  • Shneur SCHNEERSOHN
  [34] Yaacov SCHNEERSOHN remarried the daughter of Yehuda Leib SCHNEERSOHN

• [35] Rebbe Maran Shmuel SCHNEERSOHN, the Maharsh (b. 11 May 1834 Lubavitch, d. 26 Sep. 1882 Lubavitch), the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, first married Rivkah SHNEURSON (b. 1833, d. 10 Feb. 1914) daughter of Aharon Moshe ALEKSANDROV and Sarah SCHNEERSOHN.
  • [97] Shneur Zalman Aharon SCHNEERSOHN (b. 1847, d. 5 Nov. 1908) first married [76] Shterna SCHNEERSOHN. Children: Dina SHNEURSOHN (d. young) and Sarah SHNEURSOHN married WOLFSON.
  • [98] Rabbi Shalom Dover SCHNEERSOHN (b. 1866, d. 1920), the fifth Rebbe of Chabad/Lubavitch married [96] Sterna Sarah SCHNEERSOHN )d/ 1042_ sister of Rabbi Shneur Zalman Mordechai SCHNEERSOHN (the Zhitomer Rav). See article on the Wikipedia.
    • Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak SHNEURSOHN (b. 1880, d. 1950), the sixth Rebbe of Chabad Lubavitch, married Nechama Dinah SHNEURSOHN (b. 1882, d. 28 Dec. 1971 Brooklyn, New York) daughter of Avraham B'Zvur SCHNEURSOHN and Yochevt SHEINBERG
      • Chana SHNEURSOHN married Shmari GUR-ARI son of Menachem Mendel GUR-ARI
        • Shalom Dover GUR-ARI (b. 11 Feb. 1923,) m. Mina bat Dov CHESKIND.
      • Chaya Mushka SHNEURSOHN m. Menachem Mendel Shalita SHNEURSOHN
      • Sheindel SHNEURSOHN m. Menachem Mendil Hacohen HORENSHTEIN
  • Avraham Sender SCHNEERSOHN
  • [99] Rabbi Menachem Mendel SCHNEERSOHN (b. 7 Adar 1867, d. 1940? Corsica) married Chaya Mushka SHNEURSOHN. He was the seventh Chabad Lubavitcher Rebbe.
  • [100] Dvorah Leah SCHNEERSOHN
  • [101] Chaya Mushka SCHNEERSOHN
    • Shmuel HORENSHTEIN (b. 1943, d. 1943 Treblinka, Holocaust) department head in Warsaw Jewish community. Married Breinah GUZENTHEIT (d. Holocaust).
      • Uri HORENSHTEIN (b. Warsaw, d. 1943 Treblinka, Holocaust)
      • Miriam HORENSHTEIN m. Moshe Teichman YUVAL (d. 1943). Children: Michal YUVAL, Gilat YUVAL, Tamar YUVAL, Shmuel YUVAL
  [35] Maran Samuel SCHNEERSOHN remarried Shterna SHNEURSOHN

• [36] Rada Freida SCHNEERSOHN m. [24] Shneur SHNEURSON

• [37] Dvorah Leah SCHNEERSOHN m. Levi Yitzchak SCHNEERSOHN Bunim ZALMANSON

• [38] Sarah Freida SCHNEERSOHN m. [10] Menachem Nachum (SCHNEURI) SCHNEERSOHN

• Adil SCHNEERSOHN

• [39] Shterna Feigah SCHNEERSOHN m. Meshulam Zusia Yitzchak OYERBACH
  • [102] Mordechai Dov TVERSKY
  • [103] Sarah Batya OYERBACH m. [94] Aharon Moshe SCHNEERSOHN
  • Feigah OYERBACH m. Yosef RABINOVITCH
  • Chanah Chisha OYERBACH m. Mordechai MISUCHTZOV
  • [104] Sarah OYERBACH

• Chisha Bracha SCHNEERSOHN

Menahem Mendel SCHNEURSOHN remarried Rivka Rivale daughter of Aharon Hagadol. They had one daughter

• Dvorah SCHNEERSOHN m. Chaim CHAIKIL.

Sources of information:

• Hayom Yom has a section on the children of all the Lubavitcher Rebbes. Any Chabad House would have a copy of this book. It is available in English also
• In Israel there is a book called sefer Tzezoim and this book published in Hebrew list the many thousands of descendants of the Alter Rebbe.
• Another book of interest regarding the SLONIM's is called Scattered Seeds. This book was published by George SACKHEIM from Skope, Illinois. The name SLONIM was originally Greiver and it traces back to the 1500s where their ancestor gave his life to save the Jewish town of Rozanes.
• Information on this page from Andrew SHARPE
• Gedcom file from Jules FELDMAN jfeldman@yizrael.org.il.

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