Lot 110
Synagogue and "Kol Yaג€™akov" Yeshiva in Moscow, 1957 - Photograph Album
Photograph album, "The festive opening of the Kol Yaג€™akov Yeshiva in the Muscovite great synagogue, on Sunday, 4th of Shvat, 1957".
The great Muscovite synagogue was open during the Communist era under the spying eyes of KGB secret agents. Few Jews were granted permission to pray there, especially elders, and this too only as a lip service which the Soviets paid to the world. The Kol Yaג€™akov Yeshiva which opened in the synagogue was also part of this trend. The Yeshiva included ten young men, most of whom were natives of Caucasus.
The photographs depict Rabbi Shlomo Shleifer, rabbi of Moscow, who passed away two months later, and Rabbi Yehudah Leib Levine, who replaced him and served as rabbi of Moscow for may years. 14 photographs. 19x13. A sheet of paper [worn] with captions in Hebrew and Russian is mounted on the album binding.
