Sources & next steps

Research Archive

The evidence ledger, source library, unresolved questions and next actions for the Telz family archive.

How this archive works

Facts, leads and open questions

Established

Yavneh’s identity

The girls’ school was a Hebrew gymnasium; the teachers’ seminary was a separate institution.

Established

Gordon–Bloch relationship

Yosef Yehudah Leib Bloch was Eliezer Gordon’s son-in-law and successor at Telshe.

Open

Personal Gordon line

No documented link yet connects the user’s Gordon family to Rabbi Eliezer Gordon.

Open

Rudensky dates

Full death dates, cemetery plot data and a documented Vilna-to-Jerusalem path remain to be added.

Next step: LCVA surname search

Ask the Lithuanian Central State Archives to confirm the formal title and date span of fond 1382, inventory 1, provide a digital finding aid if available, and search surname variants before any paid copying begins.

Relevant current published rates in the September 2026 research were about €24.60 per hour for searches in 1919–1944 records and €1.30 per standard scan. The archive should quote the work and turnaround before starting.

A bilingual Lithuanian–English inquiry is already drafted in the full research document.

Open the full Drive document

New research report

The Bloch Family, Telz, and Yavneh

A 2,900-word report separates family testimony from archival and published evidence, reconciles conflicting founding accounts, documents the Musar and Tarbut controversies, and follows the institutions through the Second World War.

Open the Bloch research report