Re-establishment After The War
Following the end of the war, the majority of the Jewish refugees from the Shanghai ghetto left for Palestine and the United States. Two deans of the Mir Yehiva, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel and Rabbi Abraham Kalmanowitz, managed to escape from Europe before the war in 1939 and did not accompany the yeshiva to Shanghai. Rabbi Finkel went to Palestine where he established the Mirrer Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. Rabbi Kalamanowitz went to the United States where he established the Mirrer Yeshiva Central Institute in Brooklyn, New York City. The yeshiva's leaders, Rabbi Shmuelevitz and Rabbi Levenstein, left Shanghai for New York in early 1947 with the last contingent of students. Three months later they set sail for Palestine, where they joined the faculty of the Mirrer Yeshiva that had been established by Rabbi Finkel. After their arrival in NY from Shanghai some of the yeshiva's older and most respected students established the Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College in Brooklyn NY to serve as a continuation of the original yeshiva that went to Shanghai.
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