Following Solomon Breuer 's death , in 1926 , Joseph Breuer succeeded him as Rosh Yeshiva which he practically had already been before his father ’s death . Joseph Jonah Horowitz succeeded Solomon Breuer as Rabbi . In 1933 , with the rise of Nazism , he briefly moved the yeshiva to Fiume , Italy , where he had assumed the rabbinate , but this arrangement lasted only until the next year and the family and the yeshiva returned to Frankfurt . It was formally dissolved by the Nazis in 1935 , but continued to function unofficially . On the day after Kristallnacht , Rabbi Breuer was arrested but subsequently released . The family left Germany , initially to Antwerp . A former pupil was then , with the assistance of Rabbi Bernard Revel , able to procure an affidavit of support , which enabled Breuer and his family to relocate to New York in 1939 . Bernard Revel offered Joseph Breuer a teaching position in his institution , which he brusquely turned down . He reportedly said that he would rather " clean the streets "
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Joseph Breuer