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At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, the yeshivas in Eastern Europe were at the height of their growth. Thousands of young men filled their study halls hoping to become scholars. Many of them became rabbis and heads of yeshivas. Others became researchers, authors, political activists and public figures.
Yeshivas were the breeding ground for the rabbinical, cultural and political elite of Jewish society in Eastern Europe.
