Hebrew Institute of Boro Park

Hebrew Institute of Boro Park (HIBP, also known as Yeshivas Etz Chaim/Etz Hayim) is a defunct private school in New York City. It was the first Jewish day school in Borough Park, Brooklyn.

History

Founded in 1916,[1] the school was the first yeshiva (Jewish day school) in Borough Park.[2] It was located at 5000 13th Avenue.[3]

Enrollment

During its heyday, the school had three parallel classes through grade 6, and two parallel classes for grades 7 and 8.[4] The loss of a class was partly due to those parents who subsequently sent their sons to (public) Junior High School. It went from having approximately 600 students during the mid-1960s to an estimated 200 students by 1970, by which time Etz Chaim's building was sold and the proceeds were used to establish a foundation to support religious education.

Principals
  • Rabbi Israel D. Lerner[5]
  • Rabbi Moshe I. Shulman[6]
  • Max Kufeld, 1st English Principal[7]
  • Mrs. Bella Nemiroff, (unofficial) English Principal
  • Dr. Hochberg (principal after Israel Lerner)
  • Rabbi Jerome Karlin (principal 1970 - 1977)
  • Rabbi Akiva Wadler (1978 - final year of the school)

Other yeshivas

By the time the yeshiva closed, the area was becoming more Hasidic. However, the area still featured two other long-time non-Hasidic schools; Shulamith, a girls' school on the same block,[8] and another boys school, Toras Emes, which was seven blocks away.[9] Both these schools later moved to Flatbush.

Notable students
  • Zachary Baumel (1960-1982), American-Israeli soldier

References
  1. Moses I. Shulman (11 August 2006). "The Yeshivah Etz Hayim Hebrew Institute of Boro Park" (PDF). Jewish Education.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2009-07-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "erc/syn/Brooklyn". www.museumoffamilyhistory.com.
  4. e.g. 47 graduates, two 8th grade classes, 1953: http://www.yibrookline.org/1953.html Archived 2005-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Paid Notice: Deaths LERNER, RABBI ISRAEL". 26 October 2003 – via www.nytimes.com.
  6. "Rabbinical Council of America (RCA)". rabbis.org.
  7. Ilana Abramovitch; Sean Galvin. Jews of Brooklyn (which includes his picture and, on the following 2 pages, photos of the building). p. 234.
  8. "Flatbush: Shulamith School For Girls Plans Purchase and Sale - Yeshiva World News". 21 May 2008.
  9. Ronald Greenwald

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