DiscoverYUTORAH: R' Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff -- Recent ShiurimThe Move of Mir Yeshiva to Kobe, Japan and Then to Shanghai. Why and How the Japanese Treated Mir Yeshiva More or Less Nicely. Why Memoir Literature Did Not Exist before the 1800s.
The Move of Mir Yeshiva to Kobe, Japan and Then to Shanghai. Why and How the Japanese Treated Mir Yeshiva More or Less Nicely. Why Memoir Literature Did Not Exist before the 1800s.

The Move of Mir Yeshiva to Kobe, Japan and Then to Shanghai. Why and How the Japanese Treated Mir Yeshiva More or Less Nicely. Why Memoir Literature Did Not Exist before the 1800s.

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The Move of Mir Yeshiva to Kobe, Japan and Then to Shanghai. Why and How the Japanese Treated Mir Yeshiva More or Less Nicely. Why Memoir Literature Did Not Exist before the 1800s. - Nov 25, 2024 - Rules on the Charedi Army base. How & why Japanese were friendly to Mir Yeshiva (MY). Jacob Schiff & the Japanese loan. How homes in Moscow were heated. How money was raised in the US to pay for transportation of MY from Vilna to Vladivostok. Irving Bunim's Shabbat taxi ride. Jewish community in Kobe before MY. Method of transfer of money from NY to USSR government. Matzah & wine sent to Kobe. Additional reasons the Japanese admired the MY community. Move to Shanghai. R' Meir Ashkenazi in Shanghai. Yosef Tungenhaft. R' Shneur Kotler's fiancée in Shanghai. The Shanghai synagogue. Why R' Finkel did not join Agudah & similarly R' Yaakov-Moshe Lessin & R' Dovid Lifshitz. Pearl Harbor. Publishing Torah books in Shanghai. Forced movement of the Jews in Shanghai into a slum-ghetto. Bodies of Chinese lying on the street. Theological lesson from both the 1924 visit of the 3 rabbis to the US & the dead bodies in Shanghai. WW II ends. R' Finkel in Palestine. R' Avraham Kalmanowitz in NY saved MY. Henry Morgenthau. Miracle after miracle. Explanation of the role of memoir literature & why it did not exist pre-1800s. Yeshivot Lita by Immanuel Etkes & Shlomo Tikochinski. Jay Shapiro. Silver Era.
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The Move of Mir Yeshiva to Kobe, Japan and Then to Shanghai. Why and How the Japanese Treated Mir Yeshiva More or Less Nicely. Why Memoir Literature Did Not Exist before the 1800s.

The Move of Mir Yeshiva to Kobe, Japan and Then to Shanghai. Why and How the Japanese Treated Mir Yeshiva More or Less Nicely. Why Memoir Literature Did Not Exist before the 1800s.

Rakeffet-Rothkoff, Rabbi Dr. Aaron