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For the Hasidic group Liozna-Chabad see Shaul Shimon Deutsch
Shaul Shimon Deutsch

Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, the Liozna Rebbe , is a rabbi and author from New York City. He wrote and self-published a biography of the Chabad-Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson entitled Larger than Life, which proved extremely controversial in Chabad circles....
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For the Hasidic group Liozna-Chabad see Shaul Shimon Deutsch
Shaul Shimon Deutsch

Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, the Liozna Rebbe , is a rabbi and author from New York City. He wrote and self-published a biography of the Chabad-Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson entitled Larger than Life, which proved extremely controversial in Chabad circles....
. Liozna or Liozno ( ) is an urban type settlement in Vitsebsk Voblast
Vitsebsk Voblast

Vitsebsk Voblast or Vitebsk Oblast is a province of Belarus with its Capital city being Vitebsk.As of a 2005 estimate, the voblast has a population of 1,294,700....
, Belarus
Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
, the capital of the Liozno District. It is located close to the border with Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 by the Vitsebsk-Smolensk
Smolensk

Smolensk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and the administrative centre of Smolensk Oblast, located on the Dnieper River. Situated west-southwest of Moscow, this walled city was destroyed several times throughout its long history since it was on the invasion routes of both Napoleon and Hitler....
 railroad branch and highway, on the Moshna River. Population: 6,753 (2005)

The first known record of the Liozno shtetl
Shtetl

A shtetl was typically a small town with a large Jewish population in pre-The Holocaust Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Shtetls were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Poland, Galicia , and Romania....
 (small town with a high Jewish population) is dated by 1654.

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  • The place gained some attention when on July 16, 1994 an alleged assassination of President of Belarus
    President of Belarus

    The office of President of Belarus is the head of state of Belarus. The office was created in 1994 with the passing of the Constitution of Belarus by the Supreme Soviet....
     Lukashenko was attempted near Liozno.


Famous People from Liozna

  • Marc Chagall
    Marc Chagall

    Marc Chagall ; [shuh-GAHL] , was a Jewish Russians artist, born in Belarus and naturalized France in 1937, associated with several key art movements and was one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century....
    , Russian-Jewish painter
  • Schneur Zalman, the first Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch
    Chabad-Lubavitch

    Chabad-Lubavitch is one of the largest Hasidic Judaism movements in Orthodox Judaism, and is based in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn....
     hasidic dynasty.


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