1839-1915. Rabbi of Lida, founder of the Religious-Zionist Mizrachi Movement)

REINES, ISAAC JACOB

Lida

16th Iyar, 1907

Autograph Letter Signed on the stationery of the Lida Yeshiva to Dr. Shmaryahu Levin, concerning the funding of Yeshivoth in Russia at the turn of the century

The philanthropist Jacob Broida of Warsaw left in his will 80,000 rubles for distibution to various Jewish institutions. Reines writes here that past experience has taught him not to rely on the administrators of the other Yeshivoth to give his Yeshiva in Lida its proper share. “They hate our Yeshiva because of its modern program and new agendas (i.e., of secular studies). Without prior instructions they will not give us one penny.” Reines asks Levin to contact the executor of the Broida Estate, to specifically include the Lida Yeshiva in the distribution of funds