Etz Chaim Yeshiva (Manhattan)
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Etz Chaim Yeshiva was founded in 1886 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City.{{cite web|url=http://www.braintrack.com/college/u/yeshiva-university |title=Yeshiva University |work=BrainTrak |accessdate=July 3, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607095826/http://www.braintrack.com/college/u/yeshiva-university |archivedate=June 7, 2009 }} The institution was originally established as a cheder-style elementary school.{{cite web|url=http://www.campusexplorer.com/colleges/7A1A6BE8/New-York/New-York/Yeshiva-University/|title=Yeshiva University (YU)|author=Shacora Gordon|publisher=|accessdate=18 March 2016}} In 1915, it merged with the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary to form the Rabbinical College of America. After the merger, the elementary grades of Etz Chaim were discontinued, and only the high school remained. This high school eventually became today's Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy. Over time, the Rabbinical College of America evolved into Yeshiva College and later into Yeshiva University.
History
On September 15, 1886 the Chebra Machsika Ishiwas Eitz Chaim was incorporated in the City of New York by a group a laymen and Rabbis. Purpose of the school, as described in the certificate of incorporation, was to instruct Jewish boys in the "Sacred Scriptures, the Talmud, and the Hebrew Language and Literature" as well as providing instruction in "reading, writing, and speaking the English Language."{{Cite journal |last=Klaperman |first=Gilbert |date=December 1964 |title=Yeshiva University: Seventy-Five Years in Retrospect [An Addendum] |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23874359 |journal=American Jewish Historical Quarterly |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=198–201 |jstor=23874359 }} One of the early English teachers was the future journalist Abraham Cahan.{{Cite book |last=Cahan |first=Abraham |title=Bleṭer fun mayn leben |publisher=Forṿerṭs |year=1926–1931 |volume=2 |location=New York |pages=358–369 |language=yi |trans-title=Pages of my Life}}
From 1890 until 1897, the Etz Chaim Yeshiva operated in a house at 1 Canal Street. The school moved to 85 Henry Street in 1897, where it remained until 1915.{{Cite journal |last=Klaperman |first=Gilbert |date=1964 |title=Yeshiva University: Seventy-five Years in Retrospect |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23874788 |journal=American Jewish Historical Quarterly |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=4–50 |jstor=23874788 |issn=0002-9068}}
In 1905, the Etz Chaim Yeshiva had around 175 students, who were divided into six classes. Two studied Chumash (Pentateuch) and the other four studied Talmud. The school day went from 9 am to 6 pm. The periods of 9 am to 12 pm and 1 pm to 4 pm were devoted to Religious Jewish Studies, with secular studies instruction offered from 4 pm to 6 pm.{{Cite web |title=Yeshibah – JewishEncyclopedia.com |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/15079-yeshibah#anchor13 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}
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