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Yisrael Zev Gustman
Yisrael Zev Gustman
1908 CE–1991 CE · Modern · Grodno (Belarus)
Rabbi Yisrael Zev Gustman (1908-1991) was a Lithuanian-born Talmudist who rose to prominence in interwar Vilna. As a young man he studied at the Grodno yeshiva under Rabbi Shimon Shkop, learning alongside Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz, and while still young was appointed to serve as a dayan on the rabbinical court of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, then Vilna's leading halachic authority. From 1935 he headed the city's Ramailes yeshiva. He and part of his family survived the Nazi occupation in hiding, though his young son was killed. After the war he settled in Brooklyn, and in 1971 moved to Jerusalem, where he founded the Netzach Yisrael yeshiva in the Rehavia neighborhood, named for the Vilna institution he had led. His recorded lectures were published as Kuntresei Shiurim on several Talmudic tractates.
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Stop 1 of 61920–1928Studied
Grodno (Belarus)Western Russia / Lithuania
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About Grodno (Belarus)
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.
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Shimon Shkop, Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, Marcheshes, Baruch Ber Leibowitz, Elchonon Wasserman, Yonasan Steif, Chazon Ish, Yechezkel Levenstein, Reuven Grozovsky, Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, Yoel Teitelbaum, Avraham Kalmanowitz, Yaakov Kamenetsky, Aharon Kotler, Shlomo Heiman, Yitzhak Kaduri, Steipler, Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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Kuntresei Shiurim
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