(Tradition) Rabbi Akiva Males - Among the martyrs of the Hebron Massacre of 1929 were 26 students of Hebron's Yeshivat Knesset Yisrael, established in 1924 as a branch of the famed Slabodka Yeshiva, located outside of Kovna, Lithuania. Among the Yeshiva's victims was a native of Memphis, Tennessee, named Aharon Dovid (Dave) Shainberg. While studying in Hebron he kept his family posted via detailed letters in which he describes all that was going on around him in 1928-1929.
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