Pinkas Yeshivath Ohel Moshe.

R. Yehoshua Leib Diskin (Mahari’l Diskin, 1818-98), founded Jerusalem’s Ohel Moshe Yeshiva in 1897. According to the regulations of this Pinkas, the intention was to have on enrollment ten of the very greatest scholars in Jerusalem, who would receive full financial support, with further eligible students added in accordance to funds collected. The ledger includes the names of students, administrators as well as donors from around the world. The distinguished authority of R. Joshua Leib Diskin carried such weight that many of Europe’s most prominent Rabbis agreed to act as supervisors in their locale for the receipt of funds on behalf of the yeshiva. This included: R. Yaakov Perlow of Warsaw (the Novominsker Rebbe), his son-in-law R. Moshe, R. David Tevel Katzenellenbogen of Suvalk (later St. Petersburg), R. Meir Atlas of Salant (father-in-law of R. Elchanan Wasserman), R. Chaim Leib Rottenberg of Stavisk, R. Sinai Schiffer of Karlsruhe and many others. Donors recorded stemmed from cities throughout Poland, including: Warsaw, Kolisch, Lublin, Izbitza, Kielce, Schedlitz and Lomza. And Russia: Omsk, Tapolesan, Kiev, Moscow, Odessa, Grodno and Novograd. In the United States, donors are recorded as stemming from: San Francisco, Poughkeepsie, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Among the list of donors are such notables as Rabbi Jacob Mazeh of Moscow (later involved in the Beilis trial in Kiev) and Relka daughter of HaGaon R. Yoseph Dov HaLevi. Included among students listed from the summer of 1903 (many of whom became celebrated personages of the Aschkenazi community of Jerusalem and elsewhere): R. David Bahran, R. Moshe Blau, R. Zelig Braverman, R. David ben Akiva Yoseph Schlesinger, R. Abraham Chaim Zwebner, R. Mendel Gelbstein and R. Joseph Ralbag. See Y. Sheinberger, Amud Esh: HaSaraf MeBrisk (1954) p. 76-7.