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had resettled. See Yeshiva § Lithuanian yeshivas and Yeshiva § Contemporary Orthodox yeshivas. "Remaining Jewish Population of Europe in 1945". encyclopedia...

Yeshiva, also known as Yeshivas Hevron, or Knesses Yisroel, is a yeshiva (school for Talmudic study). It originated in 1924 when the roshei yeshiva (deans)...

yeshivas in the United States and Israel. Prior to the Holocaust, most of the large yeshivas were based in Eastern Europe. Presently, the majority of...

(plural of yeshiva gedola) usually learn in yeshiva until they get married. Historically, yeshivas were for men only. Today, all non-Orthodox yeshivas are open...

movement. It was the first of hundreds of a network of Musar yeshivas that were all called Novardok yeshivas. The yeshiva was established in Novogrudok, Minsk...

Council of Yeshivas", an organization in Eastern Europe led by Grodzinski that helped support the region's yeshivas) worked to supply all the yeshiva students...

placed the Messilat Yesharim at the heart of the Musar (ethics) curriculum of the major yeshivas of Eastern Europe. Derech Hashem, Luzzato's treatise on Jewish...

Eliezer Palchinsky, rosh yeshiva, Yeshivas Beis Aryeh, Jerusalem Shlomo Polachek, Talmudic scholar and one of the earliest rosh yeshivas in America Pesach Pruskin...

leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe and founder of the Slabodka yeshiva, in the town of Sloboda Vilyampolskaya (now Vilijampolė, a suburb of Kaunas)...

Shaul Stampfer (born 1948) is a researcher of East European Jewry specializing in Lithuanian yeshivas, Jewish demography, migration and education. Shaul...

later left the Radin Yeshiva and enrolled in Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael Slabodka, the yeshiva of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel (the "Alter of Slabodka'") and Rabbi...

became rosh yeshiva in Yeshiva Torah Vodaath. In 1935 Rabbi Yisroel Levovitz was appointed rosh yeshiva. Yeshivas HaK'tzavim, another yeshiva in Vilna,...

Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak was an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva, founded in Slabodka on the outskirts of Kaunas, Lithuania (then ruled by the Russian Empire)...

yeshivas in the Pale, and reignited the study of the Talmud in Russia. After 1886, the Jewish quota was applied to education, with the percentage of Jewish...

Yeshivas Etz Ḥayyim (Hebrew: ישיבת עץ חיים), commonly called the Volozhin Yeshiva (Yiddish: וואלאזשינער ישיבה, romanized: Volozhiner Yeshiva), was a prestigious...

Manhattan, a cheder-style elementary school founded by Eastern European immigrants that offered study of Talmud along with some secular education, including...

century, most Jews in central and western Europe were well integrated into society, while in eastern Europe, where emancipation had arrived later, many...

were rebuilt in Israel and America, bearing the names of Eastern European yeshivas destroyed in the Holocaust) persuaded many who were not Misnagdic...

Yeshivas Menachem Mendel Lubavitch of Monsey, NY Yeshivas Beis Dovid Shlomo, New Haven, CT Yeshivath Achei Tmimim of Pittsburgh (Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh)...

for most later yeshivas. Twentieth century "Lithuanian" yeshivas include Ponevezh, Telshe, Mir, Kelm, and Slabodka, which bear the names of their Lithuanian...