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Students at the Mir Yeshiva in Kobe study around a table.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 38619

Students at the Mir Yeshiva in Kobe study around a table.

Elchanan Yosef Hertzman is on the right and Boruch Yaakov Alter is in the middle.

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Caption: Students at the Mir Yeshiva in Kobe study around a table.

Elchanan Yosef Hertzman is on the right and Boruch Yaakov Alter is in the middle.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Locale: Kobe, Japan
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Irene Ponevejsky Borevitz

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Irene Ponevejsky Borevitz

Source Record ID: Collections: 1999.107

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Keyword: JEWS (RELIGIOUS) REFUGEES (JEWISH) RELIGIOUS STUDY RELIGIOUS TEXTS YESHIVA (MIR) YESHIVA/CHEDER/BEIT MIDRASH
Photo Designation: JEWISH LIFE IN JAPAN

Record last modified:: 2007-07-24 00:00:00
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