Telšiai · Telshe · Telz
A sourced, growing archive of family, school and yeshiva history centered on Telz, Lithuania.
A living collection
This site brings together research on Telz, its schools and yeshivas, and the Gordon, Bloch, Rudensky, Greenberg, Sharin, Walkin and Hirshovitz families. It separates established facts from open questions so future records can be added without losing their provenance.
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The Hebrew gymnasium for girls, the teachers’ seminary and their records.
Open collection →CollectionThe Lithuanian yeshiva, its teaching system and its Cleveland continuation.
Open collection →CollectionRabbi Eliezer Gordon and the leadership line that shaped Telshe.
Open collection →CollectionRabbi Yosef Yehudah Leib Bloch and the family’s educational legacy.
Open collection →CollectionGravestone evidence for Avraham and Chaya Leah Rudensky of Vilna.
Open collection →CollectionChaim Dov and Sara Greenberg of Bridgeport - Rebbetzin Malka Feinstein’s memoir, the photographs and the graves.
Open collection →CollectionRav Chaim Sharin, author of Divrei Chaim, and the line of Rav Zalman Sorotzkin’s mother. In preparation.
Open collection →CollectionRav Aharon Walkin, the Beis Aharon of Pinsk, and his marriage into the Sorotzkin family. In preparation.
Open collection →CollectionRav Yitzchak Eizik Hirshovitz, son-in-law of Rav Eliezer Gordon, and the Illui of Tultchin. In preparation.
Open collection →CollectionSources, open questions, names and next steps.
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