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Mir Yeshiva ישיבת מיר | |
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Location | |
Coordinates | 53°27′18″N 26°27′48″E / 53.4550°N 26.4632°E |
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Religious affiliation(s) | Orthodox Judaism |
Established | 1815 or 1817 |
Founder | Rabbi Shmuel Tikutinsky |
President | Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz |
Faculty | Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz |
Enrollment | 250-400 (1920s) |
Language | Hebrew |
The Mir Yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבת מיר, Yeshivat Mir), commonly known as the Mirrer Yeshiva (Yiddish: מירער ישיבה) or The Mir, was a Lithuanian yeshiva located in the town of Mir, Russian Empire (now Belarus). After relocating a number of times during World War II, it has evolved into three yeshivas: one in Jerusalem and two in Brooklyn, New York: the Mir Yeshiva, and Bais Hatalmud.