Mir Yeshiva (Brooklyn)

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This article is about the post-war Mirrer yeshiva in Brooklyn. For the pre-war Mirrer yeshiva in Poland, see Mir Yeshiva (Belarus). For its sister campus, see Mir Yeshiva (Jerusalem).
Mirrer Yeshiva Central Institute
ישיבת מיר
beis medrash, and kollel
FounderRabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz

The Mirrer Yeshiva Central Institute (

Yiddish: ‏מירער ישיבה),[1][2] is a Haredi yeshiva located in Brooklyn
, New York.

The teaching staff includes Rabbi Elya Brudny, who also sits on the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah.

History

See also Mir Yeshiva (Belarus)

The original Mirrer Yeshiva was founded in 1815 in

Japanese-controlled) Shanghai, China, where they remained until the end of World War II. The heroism of the Japanese consul-general in Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara,[1]
who issued several thousand transit visas to Jews, permitting them to travel in order to flee to Japan, has been the subject of several books.

Following the end of the war, the majority of the

Shanghai ghetto left for Mandatory Palestine and the United States. Among them were the survivors from the Mir Yeshiva, who re-established the yeshiva, this time with two campuses, one in Jerusalem, Israel
, and one in Brooklyn, New York.

Brooklyn

The yeshiva settled in

Flatbush.[3] The rosh yeshiva was Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz,[4] who led the yeshiva for almost 20 years. He died in 1964. His position of rosh yeshiva was filled by his son Rabbi Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz[5] and his son-in-law, Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum.[2]
Rabbi Shraga Moshe died in 1998 and Rabbi Shmuel in 2008. Among the rabbis who taught at the yeshiva were Rabbi Dovid Kviat, author of the Sefer Sukkas Dovid, and Rabbi Shmuel Brudny.

Rabbi Moshe Handelsman was the longtime executive director of the yeshiva.[6] He died in 2022 at the age 92.[6]

The yeshiva is officially registered with the College Board as the Mirrer Yeshiva Central Institute. It is currently undergoing construction, building a new dormitory, a new beis midrash, and more.

Notable faculty

The yeshiva's long-time

Jewish academy "into one of the largest centers for Torah study in the world." Steven Bayme, national director of contemporary Jewish life at the American Jewish Congress
said the yeshiva helped preserve "a world that was otherwise lost."

The yeshiva is currently led by Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Nelkenbaum, son-in-law of Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz; Rabbi Asher Eliyahu Kalmanowitz, son of Rabbi Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz; Rabbi Hershel Zolty, son in law of Rabbi Shraga Moshe; and Rabbi Asher Dov Berenbaum, son of Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum. The mashgiach is Rabbi Ezriel Erlanger. The yeshiva currently includes an elementary school, a high school, a beis midrash, and a kollel. The kollel is led by Rabbi Eliezer Ginsburg and the high school by a son-in-law of Rabbi Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz.

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ a b Ari L. Goldman (April 21, 1991). "A Yeshiva Honors Japanese Protector". The New York Times.
  2. ^ a b "Shmuel Berenbaum, 87, Talmudic Scholar, Is Dead". The New York Times. January 8, 2008.
  3. ^ Brudny, Rebbetzin Rochel (December 15, 2019). "Rebbetzin Rochel Remembers...". Mirrer Yeshiva Annual Dinner Journal.
  4. ^ "Rabbi Abraham Kalmanowitz, Led Seminary Across Russia". The New York Times. February 17, 1964.
  5. ^ "Japan Gave Refuge To a Polish Yeshiva". The New York Times. March 20, 1991.
  6. ^ a b "Rabbi Moshe Handelsman zt"l". Matzav.com. 15 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  • Toldot Yeshivat Mir, Zinowitz, M., Tel Aviv, 1981.

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