Rabbi Yaakov Zechariah Maskalik, known publicly as Reb Yankel Zhuravitzer (1897–1938) was an underground Chabad-Lubavitch activist in the early years of the Joseph Stalin regime. In defiance of the Soviet authorities, Reb Yankel compiled locations of usable mikvahs across the Soviet Union and distributed them in little notes to Jewish women in marketplaces. Additionally, he informed the sixth Chabad Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of his activities. In praise of Reb Yankel, the Rebbe said, "If I had twenty Yankels, I could overturn all of Russia" In the early 1930s, he resided in the Moscow suburb of Malakhovka until his arrest in 1935.
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