all the students. Shanghai A short time later, Japan expelled the Jews from its mainland, and the yeshiva relocated again, to (Japanese-controlled) Shanghai, China, where they remained until 1947. In Shanghai, Rabbi Meir Ashkenazi, a Lubavitcher chasid who served as the spiritual leader of the Jewish refugees, arranged for the yeshiva to occupy the Beth Aharon Synagogue, built in 1920 by a prominent Jewish Shanghai businessman, Silas Aaron Hardoon. For the first few weeks, until funds could be sourced for provisions, the yeshiva community suffered from malnutrition. Re-establishment after the war Following the end of the war, the majority of the Jewish refugees from the Shanghai ghetto left for Israel and the United States. Two deans of the Mir Yeshiva, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel and Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz, managed to escape from Europe before the war in 1939 and did not accompany the yeshiva to Shanghai. Rabbi Finkel could not accompany the yeshiva due to health issues, and he therefore traveled by ship through Odessa and Turkey to Eretz Yisrael where he established the Mirrer Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. His son, Rabbi Chaim Zev Finkel, served as mashgiach. Rabbi Kalmanowitz went to the United States where he worked tirelessly to help the Jews in Europe and Shanghai. He is credited for sending money as well as hundreds of gemaras. In America, he established the Mirrer Yeshiva Central Institute in Rockaway and later moved it to Brooklyn, New York City. The yeshiva's leaders, Rabbi Shmuelevitz and Rabbi Levenstein, left Shanghai for New York in early 1947 with the last contingent of students. Three months later Rabbi Shmuelevitz set sail for Eretz Yisrael, where he joined the faculty of the Mirrer Yeshiva that had been established by Rabbi Finkel. Rabbi Levenstein too left soon after his arrival for Israel where he was appointed mashgiach of the Ponevezh Yeshiva. After their arrival in New York from Shanghai, some of the yeshiva's older and most respected students established the Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College in Brooklyn, New York, to serve as a continuation of the original yeshiva that went to Shanghai. Prominent alumni Prominent faculty Roshei Yeshivah Rabbi Shmuel Tiktinsky (1815- ) Rabbi Chaim Leib Tiktinsky Rabbi Eliyahu Boruch Kamai (? -1917) Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (1917-1965); (Nosson Tzvi Finkel/The Alter of Slabodka's son and Eliyahu Boruch Kamai's son-in-law) Rabbi Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz (1941-1979) Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz Mashgichim Rabbi Zalman Dolinsky Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz Rabbi