Editing Michael Dov Weissmandl (section)

===Establishment of an American yeshiva===
:''See: [[Yeshiva of Nitra]]''
In November 1946, Weissmandl and his brother-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Moshe Ungar, re-established the Nitra Yeshiva in [[Somerville, New Jersey]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thejewishpress.com/displayContent_new.cfm?contentid=20133&mode=a&sectionid=20&contentname=My_Machberes&recnum=5&subid=20727 |title=Mishkoltzer Nitra Chasunah |last=Tannenbaum |first=Rabbi Gershon |access-date=2010-03-16 |date=2006-12-13 |publisher=[[The Jewish Press]] }}{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> gathering surviving students from the original Nitra Yeshiva. With the help of Rabbi [[Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz]], Weissmandl bought the Brewster estate in [[Mount Kisco]], in [[Westchester County]], [[New York (state)|New York]] and moved his Yeshiva there in 1949. There he established a self-sustaining agricultural community known as the "Yeshiva Farm Settlement". At first, this settlement was not welcome by its neighbors, but in a town hall meeting, [[Hanson W. Baldwin#Personal life|Helen Bruce Baldwin]] (1907–1994) of nearby [[Chappaqua]], wife of New York Times military correspondent and [[1943 Pulitzer Prize#Journalism awards|Pulitzer Prize winner]], [[Hanson W. Baldwin]], impressed by Weissmandl, defended its establishment and wrote a letter-to-the-editor to the New York Times regarding it. Weissmandl designed the community's yeshiva to conform with [[Talmud]]ic accounts of agricultural settlements, where a man would study [[Torah]] continuously until an age suitable for marriage, whereupon he would farm during the day and study in the evenings. While this novel approach was not fully realized, the yeshiva flourished. Currently, the settlement is known as the Nitra community.
(See also [[Kashau (Hasidic dynasty)]]).