Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
1924 CE–2014 CE · Modern · Zolkiew (Zhovkva)
Meshullam Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924–2014), known as Reb Zalman, was born in Żółkiew (Zhovkva) and raised in Vienna. Fleeing the Nazis, he reached the United States in 1941 and was ordained as a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi in 1947, serving as one of the movement's early campus emissaries alongside R. Shlomo Carlebach. He later became the founding figure of the Jewish Renewal movement — blending Hasidic spirituality, contemplative practice, and interfaith dialogue — and held the World Wisdom Chair at the Naropa Institute. He died in Boulder, Colorado, in 2014.
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Zolkiew (Zhovkva)Galicia (Ukraine)
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Born in Żółkiew (Zhovkva) in 1924; his Hebrew name was Meshullam Zalman Hiyya ben Shlomo HaKohen.
About Zolkiew (Zhovkva)
Zolkiew (Polish Żółkiew, today Zhovkva, Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine), a town in eastern Galicia, was one of the major centers of Hebrew printing in Poland from the late seventeenth century. A press established there around 1692 by the family of the Amsterdam printer Uri Feibush Halevi made Zolkiew, alongside Lublin and Kraków, a leading hub of Hebrew publishing until the presses were transferred to Lemberg in 1782.
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