Place
Manchester מנצ'סטר
The city where, since 5671, stands the yeshiva that became the house of study of British Jewry.
The Jewish community of Manchester grew with the city in the age of the mills: first merchants and craftsmen, then a wave of refugees from Eastern Europe. By the start of the twentieth century it was the second largest in the country after London's.
In 5671 Rav Moshe Yitzchak Segal founded a yeshiva here. Under his son, Rav Yehuda Zev Segal, it became the place to which the English communities sent their young men, and its name stood for British Jewry as Mir or Ponevezh stood for the Lithuanian world.
Related
Sources
Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- Records of the Manchester Yeshiva and community — the yeshiva and its founding
Scholarship
- The standard reference works and encyclopedias — the Manchester community and its growth
Basis: documents and evidence.