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    Shimon Yehuda Shkop (Hebrew: שמעון שקופ; 1860 – October 22, 1939) was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Yeshiva of Telshe, and later of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah...
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    city of Grodno, then under Russian rule. Founded during World War I, Shimon Shkop became rosh yeshiva (dean) in 1920. The yeshiva was founded in either...
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    Zionist activist and Israeli politician. She was a granddaughter of Rabbi Shimon Shkop and mother of IDF soldier Uri Ilan. Fayge Ilanit was born Fayge Hindes...
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  • Moshe Shmuel Shapira Rabbi Meir Shapiro Rabbi Naftoli Shapiro Rabbi Shimon Shkop Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz...
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  • Poland. He served as mashgiach ruchani of the Grodno Yeshiva under Shimon Shkop, until he was murdered the Holocaust. Shlomo Harkavy was born c. 1890...
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    (1911-1991) of Boston, Zvi Olshwang (1873–1961) of Chicago (brother-in-law of Shimon Shkop) and Avraham Eliyahu Plotkin (1888-1948; author of Birurei Halachot—a...
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    temporarily closed in 1906, Sarna returned to Maltsch, studying under Shimon Shkop. A year later he returned to Knesses Yisroel Yeshiva in Slabodka. With...
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    had operated in the city (Shaar ha-Tora) under the management of Rabbi Shimon Shkop. Before the German-Soviet invasion of Poland there were about 25,000...
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    1933 he also met with Chaim Elazar Shapiro, as well as with Talmudist Shimon Shkop. During this time he kept a diary in which he would carefully document...
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    became the rabbi of Kelm; and Shlomo Zalman Abel, the brother-in-law of Shimon Shkop. In 1883, Eliezer Gordon was appointed as the chief rabbi of the town...
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