Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch (October 23, 1894 – January 22, 1955), often referred to as Rav Elya Meir Bloch, was a leading Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the United States in the years after World War II.

[4] He married Rivka Kaplan, the daughter of the influential Klaipėda (Memel) merchant, Avraham Moshe Kaplan, and therefore moved to Klaipėda where he lived for eight years, studying Torah and delivering shiurim (Torah classes).

[5] In 1940, the Soviets occupied Lithuania and evicted the Telshe Yeshiva from their building, converting it into a military hospital.

[5] A large part of the student body of the yeshiva was made of boys born and bred in the United States.

[5] Rabbi Bloch died on January 22, 1955,[1] and was buried at Mount Olive Cemetery in Solon, Ohio.