The Yeshiva (novel)

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Title The Yeshiva
Author Chaim Grade
Translator Curt Leviant
Language Yiddish
Publisher
Released 1967-1968

The Yeshiva is a two volume fiction book written by Chaim Grade in Yiddish and published in 1967 and 1968, and translated into English by Curt Leviant.

The main protagonist is Tzemach Atlas , a Novardeker rabbinical student sent out to open his own Yeshiva in a small town, who grapples with his upbringing based on the tenets of the Mussar Movement.