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The Golden Age of the Lithuanian Yeshivas (Paperback)
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The Golden Age of the Lithuanian Yeshivas (Paperback)
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The Golden Age of the Lithuanian Yeshivas tells the story of the
last chapter of Jewish rabbinical schools in Eastern Europe, from
the eve of World War I to the outbreak of World War II. The
Lithuanian yeshiva established a rigorous standard for religious
education in the early 1800s that persisted for over a century and
continues to this day. Although dramatically reduced and forced
into exile in Russia and Ukraine during World War I, the yeshivas
survived the war, with yeshiva heads and older students forming the
nucleus of the institutions. These scholars rehabilitated the
yeshivas in their original locations and quickly returned to their
regular activities. Moreover, they soon began to expand into areas
now empty of yeshivas in lands occupied by Hasidic populations in
Poland and even into the lands that would soon become Israel.
During the economic depression of the 1930s, students struggled for
food and their leaders journeyed abroad in search for funding, but
their determination and commitment to the yeshiva system continued.
Despite the material difficulties that prevailed in the yeshivas,
there was consistently a full occupancy of students, most of them
in their twenties. Young men from all over the free world joined
these yeshivas, which were considered the best training programs
for the religious professions and rabbinical ordination. The
outbreak of World War II and the Soviet occupation of first eastern
Poland and then Lithuania marked the beginning of the end of the
Yeshivas, however, and the Holocaust ensured the final destruction
of the venerable institution. The Golden Age of the Lithuanian
Yeshivas is the first book-length work on the modern history of the
Lithuanian yeshivas published in English. Through exhaustive
historical research of every yeshiva, Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky brings
to light for the first time the stories, lives, and inner workings
of this long-lost world.
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