Beschreibung:

Bundle of 25 letters, sent to Telz Yeshiva and to its head, Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, by yeshiva alumni who were requested to send stories and memoirs for a book named Toldot HaYeshiva to be published about the Telz Yeshiva. 1909-1910. At the end of the summer of 1909, the Telz Yeshiva published notices in Jewish newspapers (Hed HaZeman, Unzer Leben, etc.), regarding the publishing of the book Toldot HaYeshiva about the history of the Telz Yeshiva and wth a list of its alumni, their addresses and their occupation. The notices requested the alumni to send accounts of their lives: Their names, the years they studied in the yeshiva, their city of origin [at that time, most of the boys were dubbed by the name of their city and not by their surname], their present address and occupation and their spiritual and material state. [The book was never published due to the sudden death of Rabbi Gordon in England]. This collection of letters contains valuable data which sheds light on the history of the Telz Yeshiva which was the Torah center of Lithuania, descriptions of life in the yeshiva and about the lives of its alumni. Some even relate various episodes of yeshiva life and of their personal life. Also recounted are interesting facts of the meticulous rules for accepting students and of yeshiva life in those times. Hearty descriptions of diligence and in-depth study, scholarly logic and pilpul learned in the yeshiva. Many write that the time they studied in the yeshiva lit the path they tread their entire lives. The letters also contain descriptions of crises some of the students experienced during their yeshiva years, such as the polemic surrounding the musar movement, teachers who left the yeshiva, i.e. Rabbi Yosef Bloch who left to accept the position of Rabbi of Šeduva and Rabbi Shimon Shkop who left two years later to the rabbinate of Malech and Brańsk. 25 letters and postcards, size and condition vary. General condition - good to good-fair.