Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, also known as Reb Leizer Yudel Finkel, was the Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir Yeshiva in both its Polish and Jerusalemic incarnations.
Eliezer Yehuda Finkel
The Mir yeshiva in the Beth Aharon Synagogue, Shanghai
Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz
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Chaim Leib Halevi Shmuelevitz, — also spelled Shmulevitz — was a member of the faculty of the Mirrer Yeshiva for more than 40 years, in Poland, Shanghai and Jerusalem, serving as Rosh yeshiva during i
Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (born 1879)
…period, the Mir Yeshiva's enrollment grew close to 500 students from all over the world. During this time Finkel chose one of his students, Rabbi Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz as a son-in-law and eventually successor. With the outbreak of World War II, the yeshiva was forced into exile and eventually it found refuge in Kobe…
Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz
His gravesite at Har HaMenuchot.