About Zalman Shimon Dworkin
Lived 1901 – 1985 (aged 83–84). Zalman Shimon Dworkin was a Belarusian rabbi.
Zalman Shimon Dworkin was the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and a prominent member of the Chabad Hasidic movement.
Biography Dworkin was born in 1901 in Rogachov, Belarus. He emigrated to the United States in 1958. He served as the Crown Heights Jewish community's chief rabbi until his death in 1985. Dworkin was succeeded in this role by Yehuda Kalmen Marlow.
As Dworkin was a Chabad Chassid, his rabbinic authority was sought by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
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American rabbi
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Zalman Shimon Dworkin was born in 1901 in Rahachow.
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Zalman Shimon Dworkin died in 1985 in New York City.
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Zalman Shimon Dworkin was a rabbi.
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Zalman Shimon Dworkin was Belarusian.
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