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    Kovno Kollel also known as Kollel Perushim of Kovno or Kollel Knesses Beis Yitzchok, was a kollel located in Kaunas, Lithuania. It was founded in 1877...
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    HaChomos. The first kollel – in the modern sense of the term – in the Jewish diaspora was the Kovno Kollel ("Kolel Perushim") founded in Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania)...
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    and elsewhere. Salanter later helped to found another institution, the Kovno Kollel. In Germany, Salanter founded a periodical entitled Tevunah, dedicated...
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    elderate, near the Ąžuolynas park. Among others, the Rabbi of Kovno and the head of Kovno Kollel Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor was buried in the Žaliakalnis Jewish...
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  • 1896, together with a Kollel for married men, under the direction of Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horwitz, an alumnus of the Kovno Kollel and pupil of Rabbi Yisrael...
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    Sepharadi Chief Rabbi of Israel Eliezer Waldenberg 1929 Hebron massacre Kovno Kollel Slabodka yeshiva (Bnei Brak) Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka) See...
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    sponsored the "Kovnoer Perushim" as a substitute. He participated in the Kovno kollel and the Hovevei Zion movement. He was the anonymous friend who influenced...
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    also taught by the renowned Rabbi Yitzchok Blazer and learned in the Kovno kollel. Revel received semicha at the age of 16, but it is not known from whom...
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  • able to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics. Two years later he joined the Kovno Kollel, then under the leadership of the Alter of Slabodka (Rabbi Nosson Tzvi...
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    marrying Hinda, daughter of Hillel David Trivash, in 1893, Rosen studied in Kovno Kollel and was ordained by Rabbis Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor and Moshe Danishevsky...
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    Austryn Wolfson, Harvard University scholar Moshe Zilberg, Israeli jurist Kovno Kollel, a Musar-type yeshiva in nearby Kaunas Kelm Talmud Torah, another Musar-type...
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  • writing his sefer, Beis Yisrael. The kollel would later merge with the Kovno Kollel. Between 1925 and 1928, much of the Slabodka Yeshiva relocated to Hebron...
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    served as the head of the Kovno Kollel in Kaunas, Lithuania, which was founded by Salanter. Under Blazer's direction, the kollel came to be "considered by...
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  • time, too.” On the advice of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, Horowitz joined Kovno's Kollel Perushim where he studied under Rabbis Yitzchak Blazer, Naftali Amsterdam...
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    of the Lakewood Yeshiva in dozens of cities, and pioneered the community kollel concept with the opening of combination Torah learning/outreach centers...
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    later transferring to the Yeshiva of Yisroel Salanter at the Kovno kollel yeshiva in Kovno. Concurrent outstanding fellow students included Yitzchak Blazer...
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  • 1910, he studied in the Kollel Kodshim in the Raduń Yeshiva in Radun (Radin), headed by Yisrael Meir Kagan. While at the kollel, Wasserman studied for...
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    (Lithuanian: Telšiai, Russian: Тельши, Yiddish: טעלז, romanized: Telz) in Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire. By 1900 it was "one of the three largest...
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  • petitions, letters and announcements. The two rabbis jointly founded a kollel – a yeshiva for advanced rabbinic scholars who studied on their own –attended...
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  • of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and the first Rosh Kollel of its Kollel L’Horaah — Yadin-Yadin Gedaliah Anemer (1933-2010), rosh yeshiva...
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  • Avraham Grodzinski (category Kovno Ghetto inmates)
    Published posthumously by his son Yitzchak Grodzinsky in conjunction with Kollel Toras Avraham heard on a tape from Berel Wein of Yeshiva Shaarei Torah circa...
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  • prodigious memory and sharp intellect — he went on to study at the Gateshead Kollel, which at that time was considered the Oxford of rabbinical academies.....
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  • e., immigrants from Brisk) in Palestine, and the founder of the Grodno kollel in Palestine. Boyarski was born in the city of Hrodna, around 1820. From...
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    demolished. Ephraim Oshry, noted Torah scholar and religious leader in the Kovno Ghetto, and one of the few European Jewish legal decisors to survive The...
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