Here are entered works on institutions devoted principally to talmudic and rabbinic learning, including the training of rabbis, founded from about the 11th century onward. Works on academies and assemblages of scholars in Palestine and Babylonia from which the texts of the Mishnah and the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds developed and which were the antecedents of the yeshivas are entered under Talmudic academies. Works on institutions that were first founded in the early 19th century and are intended principally for the training of rabbis in a modern academic setting are entered under Rabbinical seminaries.
