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Forme autorisée du nom
Schachter, Zalman M., Rabbi
forme(s) parallèle(s) du nom
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- Schachter, Zalman M., Rabbi, 1924-2014
Autre(s) forme(s) du nom
- Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter Shalomi
- Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi, Schachter, Zalman, 1924-
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1924-2014
Historique
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.