Mir. Yeshiva.

In the center of the town of Mir in Korelichi district, a former Shopping square has been preserved. Shopping malls, houses of merchants and artisans, and several religious buildings were built around the square: the Catholic Church of St. Nicholas, the Uniate and now Orthodox Trinity Church, and a synagogue and yeshiva were erected nearby. 

The famous and wealthy merchant and talmudist Samuel Tiktinsky founded the yeshiva in 1815. Then his son Abraham ruled the yeshiva. In 1840, one hundred students were already studying here. Since 1850, the grandson of the founder of the yeshiva, Rabbi Chaim-Leib Tiktinsky, came to live in the village of mir and became the ruler of the yeshiva. Under him, the yeshiva in Mir was second in number of students only to the yeshiva in Volozhin.

The yeshiva became famous at the beginning of the 20th century, when Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, a famous talmudist, became its head. He managed to gather well-known Jewish religious authorities at the educational institution. During the First World War, the yeshiva moved to the city of Poltava for a while, from where it returned in 1921. The yeshiva resumed its activities, headed by Rabbi Kamai and Finkel. During the interwar period, during the heyday of the yeshiva, talented young Jews from all over the world aspired to enter the yeshiva in Mir. In 1931, there were 435 students here, and then 500 people!

In 1939, the yeshiva moved to Vilnius, then through Russia to Japan, and then to China, where it worked in Shanghai until 1947. Then the yeshiva split up, and one part started working in New York, and the other in Jerusalem.

The yeshiva was located in a stone building in the center of the town, which has survived to our time. There were six windows on each side, as students needed to read books and small print manuscripts a lot. The building has now been renovated. There is a memorial plaque on the monument.