Venue: YU Israel YU Israel

History:

20th Century CE 

Collections: R' Rakeffet Jewish History Fall 2023

Description

Saying kaddish for a soldier who has neither children nor siblings. Visiting קברת צדיקים. Rabbi Silver and the Rav. Dr. Samuel Schmidt visits R' Chaim Ozer Grodzinski in Vilna. Changes in political control of Vilna. R' Pinchas Hirschprung, a student of Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva (CLY), was in Vilna. His memoir: Veil of Tears. Mir Yeshiva in Vilna. The debate over the visas to Curacao. R' Grodzinski opposed getting the visas. Sempo Sugihara. R' Grodzinski's funeral and its impact. R' Hirschprung and other CLY students leave Vilna for Japan and then R' Hirschprung is brought to Montreal. His impact on Montreal. He becomes a Chabad chassid. Should CLY be in Lublin or Tzefat? Sloboka Yeshiva to Hebron. R' Meir Shapiro goes to the Beit Midrash of the חוזה מלובלין on Simchat Torah. Zikhron Meir neighborhood in Bnei Brak.