Volozhin yeshiva
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The Volozhin Yeshiva, also known as the Eitz Chaim yeshiva, was a yeshiva situated in Volozhin, present-day Belarus in the 19th century. The yeshiva was founded by Rabbi Chaim Volozhin in 1803 who was a student of the Vilna Gaon. Volozhin is known as "the mother of yeshivas".
[edit] Alumni
- Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan
- Micha Josef Berdyczewski
- Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin
- Hayyim Nahman Bialik
- Rabbi David Cohen (Rabbi)
- Rabbi Baruch Epstein
- Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein
- Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski
- Abraham Harkavy
- Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman
- Rabbi Jacob Joseph
- Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz
- Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
- Moyshe Kulbak
- Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebowitz
- Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer
- Rabbi Samuel Mohilever
- Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines
- Rabbi Zundel Salant
- Rabbi Shimon Shkop
- Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik
- Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman
- Rabbi Kalman Zev Wissotzky
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