page_title: Gateshead Talmudical College
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Gateshead Talmudical College / History
caption_attribution_description: Gateshead Talmudical College (Yeshiva), Gateshead, UK. This picture is of great significance to Anglo-Jewish history and the history of yeshivot. This is a group photo of the students and staff of the famous Gateshead Yeshiva probably from the early 1930s. Photos such as these are very rare.
context_page_description: Gateshead Talmudical College, popularly known as Gateshead Yeshiva, is located in the Bensham area of Gateshead in North East England. It is the largest yeshiva in Europe and considered to be one of the most prestigious advanced yeshivas in the Orthodox world. The student body currently numbers approx. 300. Although students are mainly British, there are European, American, Canadians as well as some from South America, Australia and South Africa.
context_section_description: The yeshiva was founded in Gateshead in 1929 by Reb Dovid Dryan, with the Chofetz Chaim serving as an active patron and appointing the original head of the yeshiva. The first rosh yeshiva and menahel (principal) were respectively Rabbi Nachman Landinski and Rabbi Eliezer Kahan, both alumni of the famed Novardok yeshiva network and both of whom had escaped Communist Russia religious persecution by escaping across the border from Russia to Poland. Originally, Rabbi Avraham Sacharov was designated as first rosh yeshiva, but Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz asked William Joynson Hicks, the Home Secretary, to block Sacharov's immigration in an attempt to prevent the establishment of a yeshiva outside his jurisdiction. The attempt failed and Landynski, Sacharov's brother-in-law, was appointed instead. At its inception, Gateshead Yeshiva was seen as a branch of Novardok, officially sharing its doctrines, ideals and methodology and named "Yeshivas Beis Yosef" in common with other branches of Novardok.
  By 1948, an official American fundraising (including registration as a domestic not-for-profit corporation) was established. (501(C)3)
  As of 2019, the Yeshiva has government accreditation, and the lunchroom has been rated "5 (Very Good)" for Food Hygiene.
caption: Gateshead Talmudical College about 1930, rabbis and students[11]
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