Yehoshua Mondshine was an Israeli rabbi, scholar, researcher and historian associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch, Hasidic movement.
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12 Facts About Yehoshua Mondshine
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In 1968, Yehoshua Mondshine studied at the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
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Yehoshua Mondshine continued to write to the Rebbe, confiding his teenage anxieties and seeking spiritual advice; Yehoshua Mondshine, in one early letter, included a list of textual variants he had noticed in the Chabad prayerbook compared to earlier sources.
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Yehoshua Mondshine edited a number of books on the topic of Chabad history, referencing original manuscripts that he discovered, compiling evidence to differentiate between authoritative traditions and legends.
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Yehoshua Mondshine was responsible for publishing, editing, and producing a number of scholarly articles, bibliographies, and polemical essays; his work was especially well received by the Lubavitcher Rebbe who encouraged his literary work.
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Yehoshua Mondshine has argued against other Jewish historians, such as Simon Dubnow, Mordechai Vilensky and Immanuel Etkes, that Rabbi Elijah of Vilna was not the driving force behind the early persecution of Hasidim, and had only become involved due to the activism of leaders of the Kahal of the Jewish community of Vilna.
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Yehoshua Mondshine uses Russian archival documents to back his theory of the events.
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In 1982, Yehoshua Mondshine published an early and previously unknown manuscript of Shivkhei Ha-Baal Shem Tov, an early collection of tales about the founder of the Hasidic movement.
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