Vaad Hayeshivot, Vilna (Vilna). Records.

Title: Vaad Hayeshivot

Inclusive Dates: 1924-1940

ID: RG 25

Extent Information

21'5.5"; 51 5"lgl; 1 2.5"lgl: 2 map folders

Arrangement

Organization: Boxes 1-51 are arranged; Box 52 is unarranged

Arrangement: The collection is arranged in 5 series: I) Intra-Organizational Corres. (folders 1-772); II) General Office Corres. (773-786); III) Special Programs & Activities (787-1098); IV) Administrative Records (1099-1174); V) Printed Materials (1175-1218)

Biographical/Historical

The Vaad Hayeshivot, or Council of Yeshivot, was an organization founded in 1924 at a rabbinical convention in Grodno under the sponsorship of the Chofetz Chaim, Rabbi Israel Meir Hakohen Kagan, and Rabbi Chaim Oyzer Grodzienski of Vilna. The Council provided financial and spiritual assistance to a network of 70 yeshivot in the five Eastern provinces of Poland, namely, Bialystok, Nowogrodek, Polesie, Vilna and Vohlynia. The Council's official organ, Dos vort, appeared weekly from 1924-1939. The Vaad Hayeshivot was active until 1940.

Creators

Vaad Hayeshivot (Vilna)

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Celebration, completion of Sefer Torah
Charitable Activities
Communal Organizations
Educational Organizations
EDUCATION_
GENEALOGY AND FAMILY HISTORY_
Refugees
Relief Activities
RELIGIOUS LIFE_
Sefer Torah
Torah Scroll
Vaad Hayeshivot (Vilna)
Yeshivas

Forms of Material (links to similar genres)

Documents - Records

Administrative Information

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Description: Intra-organizational correspondence with over 300 communities. Correspondents include yeshiva deans, administrators, local Vaad societies, fund raisers, rabbis. Lists of contributions from individual towns. Correspondents include Rabbi Eliezer Yehudah Finkel (Mir); Rabbi Shlomo Heiman (Vilna); Rabbi Abraham Joffen (Bialystok); Rabbi Aaron Kotler (Kleck); Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz (Kamieniec- Litewski); Rabbi Moshe Perlow (Stolin); Rabbi Reuven Rozovsky (Kamieniec-Litewski); Rabbi Menachem Mendel Moshe Saks (Radun); Rabbi Simon Shkop (Grodno); Rabbi Elhanan Bunim Wasserman (Baranowicze). Among the yeshivot represented in the collection: Ohel Torah (Baranowicze); Toras Chesed (Baranowicze); Beis Yosef (Bialystok); Rameiles (Vilna); Lomza Yeshiva (Lomza); Mirrer Yeshiva (Mir); Etz Chaim (Kleck); Chofetz Chaim (Radun). General office correspondence with organizations, commercial establishments, government authorities. Records of special programs and activities: municipal elections, 1928; Russian food package program, 1933; refugee committee, 1940, including lists of yeshiva students from cities and towns in Poland who fled to Vilna at the outbreak of the war; Sefer Torah project, 1933-1935. Administrative records: by-laws, convention materials, questionnaires, list of yeshivot. Printed materials: circulars, posters, clippings.

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