History

For centuries, the Jewish community of Vilna was one of the the spiritual center of Eastern European Jewry. It was a center of Jewish creativity and learning, a community bursting with yeshivas and shuls, Kloizes (study halls), institutions that aided poor new mothers, charities that helped the poor, and much more. 

 In was therefore famous in the Jewish world as "The Jerusalem of Lithuania" – a spiritual center of the first order.

The vibrant Jewish community in Lithuania had some of the most prominent Yeshivas of the world, some of which are Telz, Ponivitch, Slabodka.