[Avodah] Closing of the Volozhin Yeshiva

[Michael Poppers]

>From "History of Yeshivot in Lithuania..." by Dr. L. Eckman (additions in
brackets are mine), pp. 39-40:
"As Rabbi [NTzY]Berlin aged, he wanted to bring in his son[,] Rabbi Chaim
Berlin, to head the Yeshiva. This time, the students objected to the
appointment of Rabbi Chaim Berlin. A number of these students went to the
Tsarist Minister of Education, informing him that the Yeshiva is not in
compliance with the orders of the government in matters of secular
education.<16> In the month of Shevat, 1892, the Tsarist government ordered
the closing of the Yeshiva, and ordered its students to disperse and return
to their respective cities within three days...."
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<16> "Mosdoth Torah B'Europa b'binyanam U'vehurbanam" by Samuel K. Mirsky,
p.74
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I've FWDed Avodah Digest V26#93 to Dr. Eckman and am bcc:ing him on this
message.

All the best from
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager
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