Large collection of photographs and pictures: Gateshead Yeshiva (England), rabbis in Eretz Israel, and more.
· Approximately one hundred photographs of yeshiva life at the Gateshead Yeshiva in the 40s and 50s. Including photographs of the rabbis of the yeshiva and the city, and unknown photos of visits to the yeshiva by the Ponovezh Rabbi and Rabbi Abramsky. · Photographs of the Ponovezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak and of rabbis in Eretz Israel: Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky, Rabbi Eliyahu Lopian, Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, Rabbi Yechezkel Loewenstein, Rabbi David Povarsky, and others. · Photographs of community life in the Netherlands. · Many photos of the religious community life in Savyon at various occasions: photos of visits by leading rabbis and rebbes: Rabbi Chaim Greineman, Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, Rabbi Michel Yehuda
Lefkowitz, Rabbi Yehuda Ades, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, Rabbi Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, Rabbi Baruch Dov Povarsky, the Belzer Rebbe, the Sosov Rebbe, the Kaliver Rebbe and the singer Shlomo Carlebach.
The photographs are from the archive of Rabbi Yisrael Brodman, born in Rotterdam (Netherlands). At the time of the Holocaust, he was deported to concentration camps, but survived and later studied at the Gateshead and Ponovezh Yeshivas. Served ten years as rabbi and Dayan in Amsterdam. In 1973, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and was appointed Chief Rabbi of Savyon, where he established Torah institutes and a Kollel.
215 items, containing more than 200 original photos.