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    the town of Mir, Russian Empire (now Belarus). After relocating a number of times during World War II, it has evolved into three yeshivas: one in Jerusalem...
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  • Mir Yeshiva or Mirrer Yeshiva may refer to: Mir Yeshiva (Belarus) Mir Yeshiva (Brooklyn) Mir Yeshiva (Jerusalem) Mir Brachfeld, branch of Mir Yeshiva...
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    The Mir Yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבת מיר, Yeshivat Mir), known also as The Mir, is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Beit Yisrael, Jerusalem. With over 9,000 single...
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    publicist Mir Castle Complex St. Nicholas' Church, Mir Mir Yeshiva (Belarus) Battle of Mir Isser Zalman Meltzer History of the Jews in Belarus Karelichy...
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    Gedolei HaTorah. See also Mir Yeshiva (Belarus) The original Mirrer Yeshiva was founded in 1815 in Mir (now in Belarus), and remained in operation there...
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  • company) Mir yeshiva (Belarus) Mir yeshiva (Brooklyn), successor to the Belarus Mir Yeshiva Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem), successor to the Belarus Mir Yeshiva Metropolitan...
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    Raduń Yeshiva. In 1903 Finkel married Malka, the daughter of Rabbi Eliyahu Boruch Kamai who was the Rosh Yeshiva of the yeshiva in Mir, Belarus. Three...
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    Yeruchom Levovitz (category People from Mir, Belarus)
    the Mir Yeshiva in Belarus. Maran Yeruchom Levovitz was born in 1875 (5635 in the Jewish calendar) in Lyuban, in present-day Minsk Region, Belarus (near...
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    Yeshiva), was a prestigious Lithuanian yeshiva located in the town of Volozhin, Russian Empire (now Valozhyn, Belarus). It was founded around 1803 by Rabbi...
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    Shmuel Berenbaum (category Mir Yeshiva alumni)
    studied in the Mir Yeshiva located in the town of Mir, now in Belarus. At the onset of World War II, he traveled with the rest of the Mir Yeshiva to Vilna,...
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  • with the foundation and development of" the Mir Yeshiva (Belarus), from which came the one in Jerusalem, the Mir in Brooklyn and Bais HaTalmud. Shmuel Tiktinsky...
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    Belarus. Jacob Rutstein, businessman Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, yeshiva dean of Volozhin Yeshiva Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, yeshiva dean of Mir Yeshiva (Belarus)...
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  • Binyamin Zeilberger (category Mir Yeshiva alumni)
    and Chana (Johanna) Zeilberger. In 1935 he enrolled in the Mir Yeshiva in what is now Belarus, where he shared a room in a boarding house with Aryeh Leib...
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  • Shmuel Brudny (category Mir Yeshiva alumni)
    shiur in the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn. Brudny was born in August 1915 to Rabbi Elya and Basya Brudny in Smarhon', Russia (now in Belarus), during World...
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    CT Yeruchom Levovitz, mashgiach ruchani, Mir yeshiva (Belarus) Avigdor Miller, mashgiach ruchani, Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, and community rabbi Ephraim...
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  • Chaim Leib Tiktinsky (category Mir rosh yeshivas)
    1823, in the town of Mir in the Russian Empire (currently in Belarus). His father, Rabbi Shmuel Tiktinsky, had founded the Mir Yeshiva in his town several...
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    A yeshiva or jeshibah (/jəˈʃiːvə/; Hebrew: ישיבה, lit. 'sitting'; pl. ישיבות, yeshivot or yeshivos) is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused...
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  • Binyomin Beinush Finkel (category Mir rosh yeshivas)
    rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Mir in Jerusalem. He was born in Mir, Belarus, where his father Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel was the rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva...
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  • Gershon Yankelewitz (category Mir Yeshiva alumni)
    Yankelewitz was born in Lubcha, present day Belarus. Prior to World War II Yankelewitz studied at the Mir Yeshiva (Belarus) and was considered a Talmid Muvhak...
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    The Mir Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto in Mir, Belarus during World War II. It housed at least 3,000 Jews, of whom about 2,900 were exterminated as part of the...
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  • students of the Mir Yeshiva in Belarus, which survived the Holocaust by escaping to Japan and ultimately found refuge in Shanghai where the yeshiva spent the...
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  • Yechezkel Levenstein (category Mir mashgiach ruchanis)
    March) 1974), was the mashgiach ruchani of the Mir Yeshiva, in Mir, Belarus and during the yeshiva's escape to Lithuania and on to Shanghai due to the...
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    Isser Zalman Meltzer (category Mir Yeshiva alumni)
    the rabbi of the city, and at the Mir Yeshiva. In 1884, at the age of 14, he began studying at the Volozhin yeshiva under the Netziv and Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik...
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    Zwartendijk Persona Non Grata (2015 film) Nansen passport Ładoś Group Mir Yeshiva (Belarus) Portals: History Judaism Biography Japan Tenembaum B. "Sempo "Chiune"...
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    more groups of Perushim emigrate to Palestine. 1817 – The Mir Yeshiva is established in Mir by Rabbi Shmuel Tiktinsky. 1841 – The non-religious Jewish...
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    The yeshiva later moved to Kamyenyets, then part of Poland, and currently in Belarus, and is therefore often referred to as the Kaminetz Yeshiva or simply...
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  • Avraham Kalmanowitz (category Mir rosh yeshivas)
    1887 – 15 February 1964) was an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York from 1946 to 1964. Born in Russian empire...
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    in commemoration of Zwartendijk and regional resistance fighters. Mir Yeshiva (Belarus) Thomas Hildebrand Preston, 6th Baronet Frits Philips Paldiel, Mordecai...
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    in Belarus begins as early as the 8th century. Jews lived in all parts of the lands of modern Belarus. In 1897, the Jewish population of Belarus reached...
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  • yeshivas, midrashas and Hebrew schools in Israel and List of synagogues in Israel Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue Magain Shalome Synagogue Kaifeng Jews Mir yeshiva...
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