Hebrew Institute of Boro Park

Hebrew Institute of Boro Park (HIBP, also known as "Yeshivas Etz Chaim" alt. spelling "Etz Hayim" was the first Jewish Day School in Boro Park.
==History==
It was the first yeshiva in Boro Park http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/37718, located at 5000 13th Avenue http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/erc-syn-brooklyn.htm.
The school, which was founded in 1916 http://www.informaworld.com/index/750855066.pdf lasted for about 6 decades.
When it was most successful, it had 3 parallel classes through grade 6 and 2 parallel classes for grades 7 & 8 e.g. 47 graduates, two 8th grade classes, 1953: http://www.yibrookline.org/1953.html. The loss of a class was partly due to those parents who subsequently sent their sons to (public) Junior High School.
In the mid to late 1960s this was still the situation. The end was relatively rapid, going from approximately 600 students mid 1960s to an estimated 200 students by 1970.
==Principals==
* Rabbi Israel D. Lerner
* Rabbi Moshe I. Shulman
* Max Kufeld, 1st English Principal p. 234, Jews of Brooklyn, by Ilana Abramovitch and Sean Galvin, which includes his picture and, on the following 2 pages, photos of the building
* Mrs. Bella Nemiroff, (unofficial) English Principal
* Rabbi Carlin (principal 196? - 1977)
* Rabbi Akiva Wadler (1978 - final year of the school)
==Other Yeshivas==
Although when the Yeshiva closed, the area was becoming much more Chasidic, the area included 2 other well known long-time non-Chasidic schools. Down the block from Etz Chaim was a girls school, Shulamith http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=18593 and, 7 blocks away, another boys school, Toras Emes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Greenwald.
These schools moved to Flatbush, unlike Etz Chaim, which closed.
==References==
==External links==
* Class of 1953, reunion
* 1960 Graduate Zachary Baumel, Prisoner of War
* re Pre WW II Boro Park: See "Were there any yeshivas there?"
Category:Orthodox yeshivas
Category:Jewish history
Category:Educational institutions established in 1916