R. Shalom Dov Baer b. Menahem Mendel Schneerson (Maharshab,1866–1920) succeeded his father in the leadership of Habad. A dynamic personality, his most important achievement was the founding of the first hasidic yeshivah "Tomekhei Temimim" (1897), which led the way to a more organized and effective religious education in the Habad movement and elsewhere. His literary work is closely connected with his educational work. In 1916 he began to establish a network of Habad yeshivot in Georgia, and was the first hasidic leader to spread Hasidism among non-Ashkenazi Jewry.