Keywords: Schneur Zalman of Liadi.jpg A portrait purportedly displaying Rabbi w Schneur Zalman of Liadi in fact painted by Boris Schatz 66 years after he died http //en wikipedia org/wiki/Image Schneur_Zalman_of_Liadi jpg 1878 w Borish Schatz PD-old Provenance A painting made by Boris Schatz of his own volition in Warsaw during 1877-1878 and publicized as an authentic portrait of the Rabbi It was handed by the painter to Channaya Schneersohn of the w Schneersohn family as a gift and the former recommended that it be publicized as an authentic rendering copied from an original found in archives Schatz himself bolstered the claim in a 1898 article he wrote claiming to have seen the old lost painting In 1938 his letters revealed the truth posthumously Chabad spokesmen did not deny this Maya Balakirsky Katz The Visual Culture of Chabad Cambridge University Press 2010 ISBN 9780521191630 pp 43-46 Upload history on English language Wikipedia http //en wikipedia org/w/index php title Special Log page File Schneur_Zalman_of_Liadi jpg file log does not show original 2004 uploads 07 48 29 September 2005 UTC 331×425 28 KB Junjk Reverted to earlier revision 07 05 2 November 2004 UTC 331×425 28 KB IZAK Very old accepted public image of Schner Zalman of Liadi of Lubavitch 07 01 2 November 2004 UTC 331×425 28 KB IZAK Very old accepted public image of Schner Zalman of Liadi of Lubavitch Shneur Zalman of Liadi Boris Schatz 1878 paintings |