Encyclopedia - Nosson Zvi Finkel: Encyclopedia - Nosson Zvi Finkel
Nosson Zvi (Nota Hirsh) Finkel (1849-1927), was born in Lithuania and died in the British Mandate of Palestine. He was an influential lea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehezkel Abramsky: Encyclopedia - Yehezkel Abramsky
Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky (1886–1976) was one of the world's most eminent Orthodox rabbis of the 20th century. He was born in Lithuania a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nosson Zvi Finkel: Encyclopedia Ii - Nosson Zvi Finkel - Philosophical Approach
Despite his influence, he was an intensely private person. Yet, he personally oversaw the complete student body of the yeshiva. His motto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lithuanian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - Lithuanian Jews - Jewish Culture In Lithuania
The founding of the yeshivot in Lithuania was due to the Lithuanian-Polish Jews who studied in the west, and to the German Jews who migra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lithuanian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - Lithuanian Jews - Lithuanian Jews Today
By the end of the nineteenth century, many of Lithuania's Jews were part of the general flight of Jews from Eastern Europe to the New Wor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lithuanian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - Lithuanian Jews - Effect Of The Cossacks' Uprising In Lithuania
The fury of this uprising destroyed the organization of the Lithuanian Jewish communities. The survivors who returned to their old homes ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lithuanian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - Lithuanian Jews - Identified With Vilna Gaon
Religious observances owe greatly to Elijah ben Solomon Kramer, the Vilna Gaon who lived in Lithuania's greatest city Vilna. His style of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lithuanian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - Lithuanian Jews - The Union With Poland
For the next 500 years, Poland and Lithuania were united. It was generally a time of prosperity and relative safety for the Jews of both ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nosson Zvi Finkel: Encyclopedia Ii - Nosson Zvi Finkel - Opposition
His main opponents in the "yeshiva world" were the members and alumni of the Brisk yeshiva of Lithuania headed by the Soloveitchik family...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nosson Zvi Finkel: Encyclopedia Ii - Nosson Zvi Finkel - Land Of Israel
Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel staged one of the most dramatic moves in the history of yeshivot. In the 1920s he decided to create a branch of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lithuanian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - Lithuanian Jews - Ethnicity Religious Customs And Heritage
Lithuanian Jews are almost all Ashkenazi Jews and many are Mitnagdim who were opposed to the new inroads of Hasidism. A sizable minority ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lithuanian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - Lithuanian Jews - Early History
As early as the eighth century Jews lived in parts of the Lithuanian territory. Beginning with that period they conducted the trade betwe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lithuanian Jews: Encyclopedia Ii - Lithuanian Jews - Increasing Prosperity And The Great Charter 1320-1432
With the campaign of Gedimin and his subjection of Kiev and Volhynia (1320-21) the Jewish inhabitants of these territories were induced t...   » Read the article