History:

19th Century CE,  20th Century CE 

Collections: R' Schachter Jewish Heritage Tour of Lita/Poland

Description

Shiur given on a bus. How did R Leizer Yudel Finkel change the nature of the Mirer yeshiva? How did R Yeruchom Levovitz, and R Yechezkel Levenstein influence the students? Why were R Baruch Ber's sefarim only on seven tractates? Why did R Mendel Zaks argue, that YU rebeim should teach chumash ? Why did R Velvel have eleven students? Who was the founder of the Slonim chasidim; what sefer did he write? When was R Eizel Charif a rav in Slonim, and what sefer did he write? Which famous rabbis did Novardok have? Who wrote the Galya Mesechta? How did the musar in Slobodka differ from Novardok? Why was R Yom Tov Halprin appointed rabbi in Bialystok, and not the Ohr Sameach? Who was R Shmuel Muliver, and who else signed the heter mechirah(shemitah)