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Telshe Yeshiva (; ; also spelled Telz) is a yeshiva in Wickliffe, Ohio, formerly located in Telšiai, Lithuania. During World War II the yeshiva relocated to Cleveland, Ohio in the United States and is now known as the Rabbinical College of Telshe, commonly referred to as Telz Yeshiva, or Telz for short. In 1957, the yeshiva moved out of Cleveland proper to the Wickliffe suburb.
It is a Haredi Judaism (ultra-orthodox) institution of Torah study, with additional branches in Chicago (which eventually became its own institution, no longer associated with the Cleveland Yeshiva) and in New York. It is the successor of the New Haven Yeshiva of Cleveland.
The yeshiva was established by three Orthodox Judaism rabbis and Talmudists:
In 1894, the yeshiva moved from its Telz community-provided building into a new facility. That year, it added a new subject of study, Mussar movement (Jewish ethics). Ben Zion Kranitz was hired for a new faculty position: mussar mashgiach (teacher of ethics). In 1897 Gordon hired Leib Chasman, who instituted a very strict mussar regime in the yeshiva which many students opposed.Lusch, L., ed., The late Rabbi Leib Chasman, People and Personalities, in The Shtutshin Community [1]
In 1902, Shkop left to become the rabbi of Breinsk, Lithuania. In 1905 Chaim Rabinowitz joined the yeshiva.
In 1910, while fundraising for the yeshiva in London, Gordon died of a heart attack.
Parallel to an easier version of the yeshiva curriculum, the mechina also featured secular studies, another innovation at the time. In 1924 the Lithuanian government announced its decision to accredit only those rabbinical colleges that possessed a secular studies department. The Rabbinical College of Telshe was the only such institute, although secular studies were only in its mechina.
A kollel (postgraduate institute) opened in 1922, to train graduates for the rabbinate. Bloch's son-in-law Chaim Mordechai Katz was dean ( rosh hakollel).
In 1930, a sister institute to The Yavneh Teacher's Training Institute was opened by Joseph Leib Bloch of Telz. The school offered a two-year course to young women.
These various schools were all incorporated as a part of The Rabbinical College of Telshe.
In October 1930 Yosef Leib Bloch died and his second oldest son, Avraham Yitzchak Bloch succeeded him as both community rabbi and rosh yeshiva.
Rabinowitz died in the year 1931 which was the year Yosef Leib Bloch and his son Azriel Rabinowitz, was appointed as a rosh yeshiva.
In 1933, the yeshiva built a new building to house the mechina ("preparatory school").
During the early years of World War II, Elya Meir Bloch and Chaim Mordechai Katz were in the United States on a fund-raising mission. As the war broke out, their only option to ensure the continuity of the Yeshiva was to rebuild Yeshiva on American soil. This Yeshiva was thus rebuilt in Cleveland Ohio.
In October 1940, a group of students led by Chaim Stein escaped via Russia. This group found its way to the United States in early 1941 and joined the Yeshiva in Cleveland.1941:
Telshe consists of a high school, college and post-graduate school. The yeshiva is a non-profit and is accredited through the Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools. The yeshiva has a department of secular studies that grants a high school diploma.
In the United States the original faculty included Elya Meir Bloch, Chaim Mordechai Katz, Boruch Sorotzkin, Mordechai Gifter, and Chaim Stein.
The 2013 student count of 130 included 80 in grades 9-12; the highest student count, in 1966, was about 425.
Notable alumni
Among the well-known alumni of the yeshiva are:
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