Grodno (Belarus)
Western Russia / Lithuania
Grodno (Hrodna), a city in western Belarus near the Lithuanian and Polish borders, had a large Jewish community and was a noted center of Lithuanian Torah learning. Until 1939 it was home to the Sha'ar HaTorah yeshiva headed by Rabbi Shimon Shkop, one of the most influential roshei yeshiva of the Lithuanian world, whose analytical method shaped a generation; the yeshiva fled to Vilna at the Soviet occupation while Shkop, too ill to travel, died in Grodno.
18 teachers · 3 works
Teachers who lived here
- מי
Mordechai Yoffe
R. Mordechai Yoffe (Levush) (1530–1612)
rabbinate 1572
Ma'asas Binyamin
Rabbi Aharon Binyamin Solnik (1535–1619)
birth 1550–1570
Kikayon DeYonah
Rabbi Yonah Teomim-Frankel (1595–1669)
rabbinate 1610–1648
Aryeh Leib Epstein
Aryeh Leib Epstein (1708–1775)
born 1708
Yitzchak Eizik Chaver
Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Chaver (1789–1852)
birth 1789
Nachum Kaplan
Nachum Kaplan (1811–1879)
Yehoshua Leib Diskin
Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818–1898)
birth 1818
Shimon Shkop
Shimon Yehuda HaKohen Shkop (1860–1939)
death 1920–1939
Naftali Trop
Rabbi Naftali Trop (1871–1928)
birth 1871
Yechezkel Abramsky
Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky (1886–1976)
birth 1886
Chaim-Moshe Shapira
Chaim-Moshe Shapira (1902–1970)
born 1902
Chaim Shmuelevitz
Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz (1902–1979)
study 1919
Aryeh Leib Malin
Rabbi Aryeh Leib Malin (1906–1962)
study 1920
Dovid Lifshitz
Rabbi Dovid Lifshitz (1906–1993)
study 1919
Yisrael Zev Gustman
Rabbi Yisrael Zev Gustman (1908–1991)
study 1920–1928
Yehudah Gershoni
Yehudah Gershoni (1908–2000)
born 1908
Shmuel Rozovsky
Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky (1913–1979)
birth 1913–1935
Alexander Süsskind of Grodno
Alexander Süsskind of Grodno (?–1793)
Works composed here
- 1925
Sha'arei Yosher
by Shimon Shkop
- 1925
Sha'arei Yosher
by Shimon Shkop
- 1928
Chiddushei R. Shimon (Shaarei Yosher)
by Shimon Shkop