Word: yeshivoth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia, Joseph Schneersohn tried to keep religious Judaism alive under the Bolsheviks, was arrested and sentenced to death in 1927. He was released at the behest of Senator Borah, other potent outsiders. Rabbi Schneersohn moved to Riga, then to Warsaw, where he became Chief Rabbi and founded ten Polish Yeshivoth. He was still in Warsaw when the German bombers came over last autumn. He left the building he had lived in for six weeks just before a direct hit demolished it. The Germans let him leave Poland, but the bombing left the Rabbi shellshocked. To his friends among...
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