Novardok Yeshiva

The Novardok Yeshiva was one of the largest and most important yeshiva in pre-World War II Europe, and a force within the Mussar movement. It was the first of hundreds of Mussar yeshivas which were all called Novardok yeshivas.^[1]

The yeshiva was established in Novogrudok, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire in 1896,^[1] together with a Kollel for married men, under the direction of Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horwitz, an alumnus of the Kovno Kollel and pupil of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter. He was known as the Alter fun Novardok, "the elder of Novardok" in Yiddish.

Novardok yeshivas were opened in major cities likr Kyiv, Kharkiv, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Zhytomyr, Berdychiv, Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd), Saratov, Plogid, and Chernihiv.^[2] Influenced by the Alter, his students also created yeshivas in Kherson, Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Kamieniec-Podolski, Berdichev, Nikolaev, Bălţi, Odessa, Piotrków Trybunalski^[3] and other places.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c Gutman, Shlomo M. "What I Remember of Novogrudok". p. 39. Retrieved Oct 21, 2016.
^ Sofer, D. "Rav Yosef Yoizel Horowitz ZT"L The Alter of Novardok". Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved Feb 14, 2012.
^ "LibGuides: Yizkor Books: Home".

[jewishgen2-1] Gutman, Shlomo M. "What I Remember of Novogrudok". p. 39. Retrieved Oct 21, 2016.

[tzemachdovid-2] Sofer, D. "Rav Yosef Yoizel Horowitz ZT"L The Alter of Novardok". Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved Feb 14, 2012.

[3] "LibGuides: Yizkor Books: Home".

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