HaYeshivah VeHaYishuv ["The Yeshivah and the Settlement": Prospectus for the Nitra Yeshivah in Mount Kisco].

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

HaYeshivah MiNitra

Mount Kisco, NY

1953

Hebrew text

The re-establishment of the Nitra Yeshiva in Mount Kisco, New York, was the brainchild of the heroic personage of R. Michoel Ber Weissmandel who also acted as Rosh Yeshiva in Nitra, Slovakia before the Second World War. He is most famous for his courageous rescue efforts amidst the horrors of the Holocaust. Also known as the Yeshiva Farm Settlement, the entire Mount Kisco enterprise was a bold experiment. Rabbi Weissmandel envisioned that alongside the Yeshivah would grow up a Yishuv, or Settlement, that would engage primarily in agriculture and “strengthen the body of the Yeshivah as a whole."