Lubavitcher

Lubavitcher
/looh"beuh vich'euhr, looh bah"vi cheuhr/, n.
1. a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
adj.
2. of or pertaining to the Lubavitchers or their movement.
[ < Yiddish lubavitsher, equiv. to Lubavitsh ( < Byelorussian Lyubavichi) a town which was the center of the movement, 1813-1915 + -er -ER1]

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