Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka)

54°54′38″N 23°53′12″E / 54.910623°N 23.886702°E / 54.910623; 23.886702

Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael
הישיבה הקדושה כנסת ישראל
בסלבודקה-קובנה
Portraits of rabbis and students, 1922
Location
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Lithuania
Coordinates54°54′38″N 23°53′12″E / 54.910623°N 23.886702°E / 54.910623; 23.886702
Information
Other nameSlabodka Yeshiva
TypeMussar
Religious affiliation(s)Orthodox Judaism
Established1882
FounderRabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel
Closedc. 1941
DeanRabbi Moshe M. Epstein
Rabbi Yitzcak Isaac Sher
StaffRabbi Dov Tzvi Heller
Rabbi Avraham Grodzinski
Enrollment350 (1920s)

Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael was a yeshiva located in the town of Sloboda Vilyampolskaya in the Kovno Governorate of Russian Empire (now Vilijampolė in Kaunas, Lithuania). It functioned from the late 19th century until World War II.


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