Slabodka yeshiva
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Slabodka yeshiva (Knesses Yisrael), was known colloquially as the "mother of yeshivas" (rabbinical seminaries) devoted to high level study of Judaism's Talmud. The yeshiva was located in the Lithuanian town of Slabodka, adjacent to Kovno (Kaunas) (now Vilijampolė, a part of Kaunas). It functioned from the late 19th century until World War II and was named after its location.
It was headed by Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, also known as Der Alter ("The Elder") of Slabodka. Its Rosh yeshiva was Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein.
The Slabodka yeshiva ceased operation during the Holocaust. Prior to the outbreak of war, a large number of its students had relocated to Hebron under Rabbi Finkel's leadership, and the yeshiva was then headed by Rabbi Yitzchok Isaac Sher.
[edit] Slabodka Alumni
- Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky
- Rabbi Zvi Block
- Rabbi David Cohen
- Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky
- Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner
- Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky
- Rabbi Avraham Elya Kaplan
- Rabbi Aharon Kotler
- Rabbi Shneur Kotler
- Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz
- Rabbi Saul Lieberman
- Rabbi Avigdor Miller
- Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman
- Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna
- Rabbi Elazar Shach
- Rabbi Moshe Shatzkes
- Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin
- Rabbi Selig Starr
- Rabbi Naftoli Trop
- Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg
- Professor Harry Austryn Wolfson
- Rabbi Nissan Yablonsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Hebrew Theological College
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