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 Sun, Jan 17 2021, 9:27 am
| amother [ Ginger ] wrote: | It has nothing to do with the Holocaust. Few German kehillos had their own yeshivos even before WWII, and there were no great yeshivos in Germany. Lita was the Torah center of the world at the time, and for advanced torah study, no matter where they lived, most men went to the yeshivos in Lithuania.
Not to trivialize G-d forbid the experience of German Jewry in the Holocaust, and not to pull a one-upmanship of misery, but Polish Jewry wasn't just decimated--it was virtually wiped out. 25% of German Jewry perished vs. somewhere between 91%-98% of Polish and 83% of Lithuanian Jewry (Poland and Lithuania in this context meaning the political entities on the map at the time of WWII, not the Jewish spheres of influence.) Just so you know. |
It's not one-upping, it's history. Many Germans got out and went to many different places. There was a whole other community in Shanghai besides Mir.
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Sun, Jan 17 2021, 9:27 am
| amother [ Mint ] wrote: |  Hilarious
I have some friends..... |
BH! Heartening to hear.
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Sun, Jan 17 2021, 9:29 am
| leah233 wrote: | If your definition of Litvish is exclusively based on geography then groups like Stolin and Slonim are also Litvish groups.
( Rebbetzin Kaplan who was as Litvish as you can get was from Slonim) |
There was a lot of movement due to escaping pogroms and WWI. That's how Sarah Schenirer spent time in Vienna.
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Sun, Jan 17 2021, 9:35 am
| amother [ Turquoise ] wrote: | | What about Washington Heights? |
It's hanging on, but the actual neighborhood is quite mixed by now, it's not a yekke stronghold anymore. And Breuers is quite a bit smaller than it was in its heyday.
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