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    The Radin Yeshiva, originally located in Radun, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Belarus), was established by Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan (known...
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  • a student of the Radin Yeshiva who had been forced into exile in Smilavičy during the hostilities, agreed to serve as rosh yeshiva (dean) upon the recommendation...
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  • Mendel Zaks (category Yeshiva University rosh yeshivas)
    students attracted even more students to the Radin Yeshiva at that time. In 1925, Zaks incorporated the Yeshiva in the United States in an effort to raise...
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  • a faculty member of Yeshiva University for 40 years, and was a former student of the Radin Yeshiva. The cheder was named Yeshiva Zichron Moshe after Moshe...
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    yeshiva dean of Mir Yeshiva Naftoli Trop, yeshiva dean of Radin Yeshiva Chaim Volozhin, yeshiva dean of Volozhin Yeshiva Yitzchak Volozhin, yeshiva dean...
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    Yeshivas Etz Ḥayyim (Hebrew: ישיבת עץ חיים), commonly called the Volozhin Yeshiva (Yiddish: וואלאזשינער ישיבה, romanized: Volozhiner Yeshiva), was a prestigious...
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    Dovid Leibowitz (category Slabodka yeshiva alumni)
    Yisrael Meir Kagan of Raduń Yeshiva, who was known as the "Chofetz Chaim". As a teenager he studied in the Radin Yeshiva, where he held private study...
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    Mir Yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבת מיר, Yeshivat Mir), commonly known as the Mirrer Yeshiva (Yiddish: ‏מירער ישיבה) or The Mir, was a Lithuanian yeshiva located...
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    young extraterrestrial yeshiva student. The American Jewish writer and publisher, Richard Horowitz, wrote a memoir, The Boys Yeshiva, describing his time...
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    Volozhin and continued by his disciples, were the modern, independent yeshiva and the Musar movement. Since the late 19th century, tensions with the...
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    Belarus), on January 26, 1838. By 1869 his house became known as the Radin Yeshiva. Kagan published twenty-one books. His first work, Chafetz Chaim (1873)...
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    Kushelevsky studied in the Radin Yeshiva in New York, founded by Rabbi Mendel Zaks; Gateshead Talmudical College in England; Hebron Yeshiva; and the Harry Fischel...
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    תומכי תמימים, "supporters of the complete-wholesome ones") is the central Yeshiva (Talmudical academy) of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. Founded...
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    of $300,000 (equivalent to $3,404,000 in 2023). The yeshiva had originally been the Radin Yeshiva, which had relocated from Poland after World War II...
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    Synagogues Yeshivas Baranovich Yeshiva Grodno Yeshiva Kaminetz Yeshiva Mir Yeshiva Novardok Yeshiva Radin Yeshiva Slutsk-Kletsk Yeshiva Volozhin Yeshiva Tomchei...
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    Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak was an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva, founded in Slabodka on the outskirts of Kaunas, Lithuania (then ruled by the Russian Empire)...
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    reviled the religious Jews of the time; even going so far as to refer to Yeshiva students, who would live in poverty off charity and learn Torah instead...
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  • Synagogues Yeshivas Baranovich Yeshiva Grodno Yeshiva Kaminetz Yeshiva Mir Yeshiva Novardok Yeshiva Radin Yeshiva Slutsk-Kletsk Yeshiva Volozhin Yeshiva Tomchei...
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    Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah – Grodna, often referred to as the Grodna Yeshiva or simply as Grodna, was an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in the Belarusian city of...
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    "Karliners, Not Hardliners". Haaretz. Retrieved 2024-01-09. Official website of Yeshiva Karlin Stolin Hasidim in Pinsk and Karlin - Karlin Hasidism Ancient Melodies...
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  • The Novardok Yeshiva was one of the largest and most important yeshivas in pre-World War II Europe, and a force within the Mussar movement. It was the...
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    Salanter's eldest disciple, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, directed yeshivas in Kelme and Grobin. These yeshivas broke with established models of yeshivot in a number...
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    Synagogues Yeshivas Baranovich Yeshiva Grodno Yeshiva Kaminetz Yeshiva Mir Yeshiva Novardok Yeshiva Radin Yeshiva Slutsk-Kletsk Yeshiva Volozhin Yeshiva Tomchei...
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  • Synagogues Yeshivas Baranovich Yeshiva Grodno Yeshiva Kaminetz Yeshiva Mir Yeshiva Novardok Yeshiva Radin Yeshiva Slutsk-Kletsk Yeshiva Volozhin Yeshiva Tomchei...
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    Synagogues Yeshivas Baranovich Yeshiva Grodno Yeshiva Kaminetz Yeshiva Mir Yeshiva Novardok Yeshiva Radin Yeshiva Slutsk-Kletsk Yeshiva Volozhin Yeshiva Tomchei...
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    Synagogues Yeshivas Baranovich Yeshiva Grodno Yeshiva Kaminetz Yeshiva Mir Yeshiva Novardok Yeshiva Radin Yeshiva Slutsk-Kletsk Yeshiva Volozhin Yeshiva Tomchei...
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    Synagogues Yeshivas Baranovich Yeshiva Grodno Yeshiva Kaminetz Yeshiva Mir Yeshiva Novardok Yeshiva Radin Yeshiva Slutsk-Kletsk Yeshiva Volozhin Yeshiva Tomchei...
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    until the 16th century. The first known rabbinical authority and head of a yeshiva was Isaac Bezaleel of Vladimir, Volhynia, who was already an old man when...
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    Yisrael Meir Kagan (category Haredi rosh yeshivas)
    Kagan formed a yeshiva in Radin. The yeshiva was a success and grew to prominence, later becoming known as "Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim of Radin". In addition...
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    then mostly the Second Polish Republic. These include the yeshivas of Mir, Slabodka, Telshe, Radin, Lomza, Kaminetz, Kletsk, Grodno, Baranovich, and Bialystok...
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