Shimon Yehuda Shkop was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Yeshiva of Telshe, and later of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah of Grodno. Having innovated a style of Torah study, applying both to Halacha and to Talmud, he was widely regarded as a major Talmid Chacham.
Shimon Shkop
Shkop (left) and Chaim Ozer Grodzinski
Telshe Yeshiva is a yeshiva in Wickliffe, Ohio, formerly located in Telšiai, Lithuania. During World War II the yeshiva began relocating to Wickliffe, Ohio, in the United States and is now known as the Rabbinical College of Telshe, commonly referred to as Telz Yeshiva, or Telz in short.
Old photo of Telshe Yeshiva, Telšiai, Lithuania
Eliezer Gordon
Yavneh Girls High School Building in Telz, Lithuania.
Students of Telshe on Purim 1936.