Description
Nachum Zalman Gurewicz was born into a learned and pious Jewish family in the decaying Imperial Russia. Despite the implacable hostility of Stalinist Soviet Union to religion, he took great risks to establish his own Jewish household. After bringing his family to Australia’s safe haven in 1950, with a small group of others, he was instrumental in establishing Lubavitch Chassidism and fostering its development. Well before he passed away in 1998, he saw this group, also known as Chabad, become a very influential religious component in the Australian Jewish community.
