Vaad Hayeshivot
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Brief Description: Intra-organizational correspondence with over 300 communities.  Correspondents include yeshiva deans, administrators, local Vaad societies, fund raisers, rabbis. Lists of contributions from individual towns. Correspondents include Rabbi Eliezer Yehudah Finkel (Mir); Rabbi Shlomo Heiman (Vilna); Rabbi Abraham Joffen (Bialystok); Rabbi Aaron Kotler (Kleck); Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz (Kamieniec- Litewski); Rabbi Moshe Perlow (Stolin); Rabbi Reuven Rozovsky (Kamieniec-Litewski); Rabbi Menachem Mendel Moshe Saks (Radun); Rabbi Simon Shkop (Grodno); Rabbi Elhanan Bunim Wasserman (Baranowicze). Among the yeshivot represented in the collection: Ohel Torah (Baranowicze); Toras Chesed (Baranowicze); Beis Yosef (Bialystok); Rameiles (Vilna); Lomza Yeshiva (Lomza); Mirrer Yeshiva (Mir); Etz Chaim (Kleck); Chofetz Chaim (Radun).  General office correspondence with organizations, commercial establishments, government authorities.  Records of special programs and activities:  municipal elections, 1928; Russian food package program, 1933;  refugee committee, 1940, including lists of yeshiva students from cities and towns in Poland who fled to Vilna at the outbreak of the war;  Sefer Torah project, 1933-1935.  Administrative records:  by-laws, convention materials, questionnaires, list of yeshivot.  Printed materials:  circulars, posters, clippings.
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Record Series Number: RG 25 /RG 25 
Created by: Vaad Hayeshivot (Vilna)
Volume: 0.0
Arrangement:

Organization: Boxes 1-51 are arranged; Box 52 is unarranged

Arrangement: The collection is arranged in 5 series: I) Intra-Organizational Corres. (folders 1-772); II) General Office Corres. (773-786); III) Special Programs & Activities (787-1098); IV) Administrative Records (1099-1174); V) Printed Materials (1175-1218)

Access Restrictions: This collection is temporarily closed to the public pending completion of conservation and microfilming. For more information please write to Chief Archivist at archives@yivo.cjh.org.
Subject Index
Belorussia
Charitable Activities
Children
Education
Lithuania
Poland
Politics and Political Parties
Rabbis
Refugees
Religious Life
Social Welfare
Ukraine
Vaad Hayeshivot (Vilna)
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Records
Finding Aid Revisions: 1994/05/31 ; 1999/03/23 ; y.a.t. & GMB
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