Lomza (Łomża)לומזא
Northeast Poland — Litvish yeshiva town
Lomza housed the renowned Lomza Yeshiva, founded in 1883 by R. Eliezer Shulevitz (Lev Eliezer), which trained generations of Polish-Litvish rabbis. Branches were established in Petach Tikvah (1926) and the Lomza Yeshiva of Petach Tikvah continues to this day.
5 teachers
Teachers who lived here
Yehoshua Leib Diskin
Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818–1898)
rabbinate 1836–1843
Yechezkel Levenstein
Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein (1885–1974)
study 1900–1902
Yitzchak HaLevi Herzog
Rabbi Yitzchak HaLevi Herzog (1888–1959)
birth 1888
Yaakov Kamenetsky
Yaakov Kamenetsky (Emet L'Yaakov) (1891–1986)
study 1914–1918
Barukh Laṿsḳi
Barukh Laṿsḳi