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.

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