Misnagdim
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Misnagdim was a religious movement among the Jews of Eastern Europe which resisted the rise of Hasidism in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Misnagdim were particularly concentrated in Lithuania, where
An anathema against the Hasidim, signed by the Gaon of Vilna and other community officials. August 1781.
The Vilna Gaon
Litvishe yeshiva students in Israel
Degel HaTorah
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Degel HaTorah is an Ashkenazi Haredi political party in Israel. For much of its existence, it has been allied with Agudat Yisrael, under the name United Torah Judaism.
Misnagdim
…opponents") is somewhat outdated since the former opposition between the two groups has lost much of its salience, so the other terms are more common. Degel HaTorah History of the Jews in Lithuania…
A Degel HaTorah gathering. (L-R) Rabbis Shlomo Shimshon Karelitz, Chaim Kanievsky, Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Elazar Shach