The Lithuanian Yeshivas

Gedalyahu Alon

1943

II

These students, who poured into the Yeshivah from near and far, what were they seeking? And what was the Yeshivah seeking to give them? Did the students undertake to complete their course work at the Yeshivah in order to become rabbis, like graduates of rabbinical schools in the West? Doubtless, some had this motive, but they were few in number…

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Gedalyahu Alon

1901–1950

Historian Gedalyahu Alon (born Rogoznitski) was born in 1901 in Kobryn, Belorussia, and studied at the Slobodka yeshiva. In 1926, he immigrated to Palestine and was one of the first graduates of the Hebrew University. He taught Talmud and Jewish history there, clarifying many problems in the development of halakhah and the evolution of the social history of the Jews. In 1953, he was posthumously awarded the first Israel Prize for Jewish studies.

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