Lubavitcher

[loo-buh-vich-er, loo-bah-vi-cher]

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noun

a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.

adjective

of or relating to the Lubavitchers or their movement.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Lubavitcher¹

< Yiddish lubavitsher, equivalent to Lubavitsh (< Byelorussian Lyubavichi ) a town which was the center of the movement, 1813–1915 + -er -er ¹

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Even today, older Lubavitchers call those violent days a “pogrom,” a Russian word for ethnic cleansing.

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Over the next three days, a race riot erupted, in which black residents protested the police, stormed the Lubavitcher headquarters, and targeted Jewish businesses.

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The real estate entrepreneur is not a Lubavitcher but admired the rabbi and his teachings and has visited the site several times.

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Riots erupted after his arrival, after a Lubavitcher driver struck and killed a black child and in retaliation a group of young black men fatally stabbed a rabbinical scholar.

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On Fridays, he ate in a kosher dining hall, either Hillel or the Chabad house, which is affiliated with the Lubavitcher Hasidim.

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