Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor
…failed to save the Volozhin yeshiva from being closed by the government, but sponsored the "Kovnoer Perushim" as a substitute. He participated in the Kovno kollel and the Hovevei Zion movement. He was the anonymous friend who influenced Samson Raphael Hirsch in 1884 to write Ueber die Beziehung des Talmuds zum…