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Nissan Mindel was a Chabad Hasidic rabbi, author, editor, and served on the administrative staff of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe. Seligson, Michoel. Yartzeit of Dr. Nissan Mindel. Collive. Collive.com. Accessed February 21, 2014.
In the United States, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak suggested that Mindel translate Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi's Tanya into English, an effort that had been attempted numerous times before without success. Ami. No. 245. p. 101.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak also requested that Mindel write a monthly magazine for children. The first issue of the children’s magazine, Shmuessen Mit Kinder (in Yiddish), was published for Hanukkah 1942. A second monthly, Talks and Tales (in English), was added shortly afterward. These two magazines were published every month for the next 47 years. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson checked every issue of Talks and Tales before it went to print, continuing to do so after he became Rebbe, and Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov checked the Shmuessen Mit Kinder.
After the war ended, his wife was able to join him in the United States. She helped with translating and proofreading the children’s magazines and other works.
In 1942, He accompanied Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak on his trip to Chicago, and in 1947, he sent him to France, England, and Germany on several fact-finding social and educational missions.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Rabbi Menachem Mendel sent him numerous times to Russia, to retrieve manuscripts and to strengthen the spirits of the Jews behind the Iron Curtain; to South Africa for Jewish communal matters; to the Suez Canal for the printing of the Tanya; and to Israel for communal matters and meetings with dignitaries and political figures. In the 1970s and 1980s, he sent him to Washington, D.C., and to Albany, New York, for conferences on education and aging, as well as on missions to Russia to retrieve manuscripts and books and to Israel for educational purposes. Ami. No. 245. p. 102–103.
Mindel recorded a great deal of Chabad history and helped edit the memoirs of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak. Archives of Nissan Mindel to be Published. Crownheights.info. Accessed February 21, 2014.
Education
While in Riga, Mindel attended Yeshivah Torah Im Derech Eretz, which incorporated both Torah study and secular studies, as espoused by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. Ami. No. 245. p. 95. While in England, he received his B.A. and M.A. from University of Manchester, where he studied economics and Semitic languages. Ami. No. 245. p. 88. His dissertation was a comparative study of the economics of Latvia and England. In 1962 he earned a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University in New York.
Family
Mindel was married to Necha (Nettie), Ami. No. 245. p. 102. the daughter of his uncle, Rabbi Avraham Sender Nemtzov.
Published works
Mindel authored works published by Chabad's Kehot Publication Society including the first official translation of the Tanya in English. His works include:
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Categories: Chabad-lubavitch Rabbis, 1912 Births, 1999 Deaths, American Male Non-fiction Writers, Hebrew–english Translators, Latvian Male Writers, Jewish Religious Writers, Jewish American Non-fiction Writers, Artists From Riga, Alumni Of The University Of Manchester, Columbia Graduate School Of Arts And Sciences Alumni, Latvian Orthodox Rabbis, Latvian Emigrants To The United States
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