Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Schachter, Zalman M., Rabbi
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Schachter, Zalman M., Rabbi, 1924-2014
Other form(s) of name
- Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter Shalomi
- Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi, Schachter, Zalman, 1924-
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1924-2014
History
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi was a scholar on mystical aspects of Judaism. He was born in Poland in 1924 and grew up in Vienna. Later, in France, he was sent to a prison camp by the Vichy government. He was able to escape to the United States in 1941. He studies at the Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brooklyn and was ordained a rabbi in 1947. He received a Master of Arts in psychology from Boston University in 1953. He taught religion at University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, from 1956-1957, and was later Chair of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. He completed a doctorate at the University of Cincinnati in 1968. While in Cincinnati, he made a number of visits to see Merton.