Dovid Povarsky


Yehoshua Dovid Povarsky was Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevezh Yeshiva.

Biography

Povarsky studied in the Kelm Talmud Torah under Yeruchom Levovitz whom he followed when Levovitz went to work at Mir Yeshiva, where Povarsky was Yechiel Michel Feinstein's roommate.
He married Tzipporah Kreiser, after which he studied under Elchonon Wasserman in Kovno.
Several of his sons became rabbis, including Baruch Dov Povarsky, his successor as rosh yeshiva.

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