Slobodka
Slobodka (Lithuanian Vilijampolė), a suburb of Kovno (Kaunas) in Lithuania, was home to the Knesses Yisrael yeshiva, the flagship Mussar yeshiva of the Lithuanian world. It was led by Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel (the Alter of Slabodka), who built it into a leading institution producing many of the roshei yeshiva and rabbinic leaders of the next generation; in 1925 the Alter and many students moved to Hebron, re-establishing the yeshiva there.
12 teachers
Teachers who lived here
Yitzchak Blazer
Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer (1837–1907)
rabbinate 1890
Eliezer Gordon
Rabbi Eliezer Gordon (1841–1910)
rabbinate 1883
Baruch Ber Leibowitz
Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz (1864–1939)
rabbinate 1904–1915
Moshe Mordechai Epstein
Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866–1933)
rabbinate 1893–1924
Isser Zalman Meltzer
Isser Zalman Meltzer (1870–1953)
rabbinate 1894–1897
Yeruchom Levovitz
Yeruchom Levovitz (Mir mashgiach) (1873–1936)
rabbinate 1918
Meitcheter Illui
Rabbi Shlomo Polachek (1877–1928)
study 1896–1905
Pesach Pruskin
Rabbi Pesach Pruskin (1879–1939)
study 1900–1905
Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg
Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg (Seridei Eish) (1884–1966)
study 1901–1906
Reuven Grozovsky
Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky (1886–1958)
study 1900–1916
Yaakov Kamenetsky
Yaakov Kamenetsky (Emet L'Yaakov) (1891–1986)
study 1905–1926
Yitzchak Hutner
Yitzchak Hutner (Pachad Yitzchak) (1906–1980)
study 1925