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While the Yeshiva was in Kobe, a debate arose among the yeshiva students regarding when to observe the Sabbath. The opinions of the Chazon Ish and Rav Yechiel Michel Tokachinsky were solicited. Ultimately, the students refrained from biblical Sabbath violations on two days, but kept it completely on
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who issued the students with temporary British travel documents to be used instead of passports. He left the documents undated so that they would not expire and issued them without confirming their identities. He also issued visas for a limited number of the students to enter Palestine. In the summer
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Several smaller yeshivas managed to escape alongside the Mirrer Yeshiva and, despite the difficulties involved, the leaders of the yeshiva undertook full responsibility for their support, distributing funds (mostly received from the
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of 1940, several students of the yeshivah led by Nathan Gutwirth, a Dutch citizen, learned that the ambassador of the Netherlands in Riga, Leendert de Decker, together with the Dutch honorary consul in Kaunas
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from the east meant the yeshiva was unable to remain in Mir, which was now under Soviet control. While many foreign-born students left, the majority of the yeshiva relocated to
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Rabbi Kalmanowitz went to the United States where he worked to help the Jews in Europe and Shanghai. He is credited for sending both funds and hundreds of
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into the yeshiva. During Rabbi Kamai's leadership the direction of the yeshiva wavered between those who wished to introduce the study of
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Rabbi Finkel could not accompany the yeshiva due to health issues, and he therefore traveled by ship through Odessa and Turkey to
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In 1929, one of the yeshiva's most gifted students, Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz ("Chaim Stutchiner"), married the daughter of Rabbi
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After their arrival in New York from Shanghai, some of the yeshiva's older and most respected students established the
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rejoined the yeshiva as mashgiach after having originally been mashgiach from 1910 until the beginning World War I.
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broke out there was hardly a rosh yeshiva of the Lithuanian school who had not studied in Mir. In 1924, Rabbi
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chasid who served as the spiritual leader of the Jewish refugees, arranged for the yeshiva to occupy the
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in Brooklyn, New York, to serve as a continuation of the original yeshiva that went to Shanghai.
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This article is about the pre-war Mirrer Yeshiva in Poland. For the post-war yeshivas, see
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by Dr. David Kranzler and Rabbi Eliezer Gevirtz. CIS Publishers, 1991, pp. 81–116.
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were willing to provide them with destination-visas to the Dutch Caribbean colony
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Students and teachers of the exiled Mir yeshiva study in the sanctuary of the
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left for Israel and the United States. Two deans of the Mir Yeshiva, Rabbi
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The Mirrer Yeshiva was founded in 1815, 12 years after the founding of the
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but not yet fully absorbed. The yeshiva was first re-established in
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One of the yeshiva students approached the British Consul in
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In the fall of 1940, the yeshiva students traveled via the
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A short time later, the yeshiva relocated again, to (
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In 1903, Rabbi Kamai's daughter Malka married Rabbi
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