caption ended dynasty predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place children title buried parents birth_date spouse image article_title name began
the frierdiker rebbe 28 january 1950 chabad lubavitch sholom dovber schneersohn menachem mendel schneerson 28 january 1950 ns lyubavichi , mogilev governorate brooklyn chana gurary chaya mushka schneerson shaina horenstein sixth lubavitcher rebbe 29 january 1950 , queens sholom dovber schneersohn shterna sarah 9 -lrb- 21 ns -rrb- june 1880 nechamah dina frierdigerrebbepassportpic.jpg yosef yitzchak schneersohn
 rabbi yosef yitzchak schneersohn 21 march 1920
yosef yitzchak schneersohn

yosef yitzchak -lrb- joseph isaac -rrb- schneersohn -lrb- -rrb- was an orthodox rabbi and the sixth rebbe -lrb- spiritual leader -rrb- of the chabad lubavitch chasidic movement .
he is also known as the frierdiker rebbe -lrb- yiddish for `` previous rebbe '' -rrb- , the rebbe rayyatz , or the rebbe rayatz -lrb- an acronym for rabbi yosef yitzchak -rrb- .
after many years of fighting to keep orthodox judaism alive from within the soviet union , he was forced to leave ; he continued to conduct the struggle from latvia , and then poland , and eventually the united states , where he spent the last ten years of his life .
