A discussion of the rise of yeshivas in 19th-century Lithuanian Jewish life.
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America at out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn cenage I say 1 million Jewish children who were made to [Music] be th whoever heard such beautiful words it is never too little it is never words it is never too little it is never too late and it is Never Enough Jewish history sound bites bringing alive the world of our glorious past here is our host live from Jerusalem Jewish historian and tour guide with Jewish history sound bites and it's been a while been busy porm and things like that but this episode is going to be good and interesting interesting engaging and providing a new way of thinking about an old story so I believe that everyone will agree that it was worth to wait and will agree that it was worth to wait and this uh what we're going to talk about still focusing on different angles of Jewish life and Jewish history in the Russian Empire of the 19th century under the Zars and this time I'm going to focus on the litvish Lithuanian World of the lamden of the rabinal elite the Yeshiva the Yeshiva Elite uh in Lithuanian society and in the Russian Empire obviously it's it's not Lithuania as a political entity it's is as a geographical one oral Gelman has is as a geographical one oral Gelman has an excellent essay in that book that I keep on referring to but there's many other sources obviously on it as well now if this would simply be a profile or profiles of specific isas or personalities associated with the litva lambden um scholarly Elite or more generally the ISA movement as it developed in the 19th century then it would be more of an internal story and doesn't belong in the
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