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May 31, 2024

American Yankees in Polish Yeshivas

When a friendly football game was a step too far.

In the early 20th century, the great talmudic seminaries of the region Jews knew as Lithuania (corresponding roughly to Belarus today and to northeast Poland in the 1920s and 30s) were at their height. After World War I, they began to attract a sizeable number of students from America. Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky describes their experience:

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