Ponevezher Rav
1886 CE–1969 CE · Acharonim · Kuliai
Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman (1886-1969), remembered as the Ponevezher Rav, was a Lithuanian rabbi who founded and led Torah institutions. Born in the small town of Kuliai, he studied as a boy at the yeshiva of Plungė and then, from about the age of fourteen, at Telz under Eliezer Gordon and Shimon Shkop; he later spent time at Novardok and at Radin, where his teachers included the Chofetz Chaim and Naftali Trop. After serving as rabbi of Vidz, he was appointed rabbi of Ponevezh in 1919 and founded a yeshiva there, along with a school and an orphanage, and he sat in the Lithuanian parliament between 1923 and 1925. When his institutions were destroyed during the Second World War, he rebuilt the Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, where it grew into one of the largest centers of Torah study. He died there in 1969.
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In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Ponevezher Rav’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Elijahu Baruch Kamai, Eliezer Gordon, Shimon Shkop, Yehuda Leib Chasman, Yeruchom Levovitz, Yitzchak Isaac Sher, Chazon Ish, Moshe Rosenstein, József Patai, Yechezkel Levenstein, Yechezkel Abramsky, Chaim Meir Hager, Alfonso Pacifici, Yechezkel Sarna, Eliyahu Dessler, Joseph Meir Elefant, Elazar Menachem Man Shach, Steipler
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Ponevezher Rav’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Eliyahu Lopian· 1876 CE–1970 CE
- Martin (Mordechai) Buber· 1878 CE–1965 CE
- Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin· 1881 CE–1966 CE
- Mordecai Kaplan· 1881 CE–1983 CE
- Rabbi Dov Berish Weidenfeld· 1881 CE–1965 CE
- Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg (Seridei Eish)· 1884 CE–1966 CE
- R. Ezra Attia· 1885 CE–1970 CE
- Aryeh Levin· 1885 CE–1969 CE
- Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman· 1886 CE–1976 CE
- Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik (R. Velvel)· 1886 CE–1959 CE
- Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky· 1886 CE–1958 CE
- Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz· 1887 CE–1964 CE
- Yoel Teitelbaum (Divrei Yoel; founder of Satmar)· 1887 CE–1979 CE
- Yerucham Leiner· 1888 CE–1964 CE
- Rabbi Yitzchak HaLevi Herzog· 1888 CE–1959 CE
- Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin· 1888 CE–1978 CE
- Yehezkel Kaufmann· 1889 CE–1963 CE
- Rabbi Reuven Margolios· 1889 CE–1971 CE
- Aharon Kotler· 1892 CE–1962 CE
- R. Yosef Mashash· 1892 CE–1974 CE
- R. Aharon Roth (Toldot Aharon founder)· 1894 CE–1947 CE
- R. Yochanan Perlow (Karlin-Stolin)· 1900 CE–1956 CE
- Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Taubes· 1900 CE–1966 CE
- Rabbi Aryeh Leib Malin· 1906 CE–1962 CE
Scientists
Luminaries & Explorers world
Christian world
Buddhist world
Rulers world
- Harry S. Truman· 1884 CE–1972 CE
- Jawaharlal Nehru· 1889 CE–1964 CE
- David Ben-Gurion· 1886 CE–1973 CE
- Dwight D. Eisenhower· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Ho Chi Minh· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Clement Attlee· 1883 CE–1967 CE
- Charles de Gaulle· 1890 CE–1970 CE
- Chiang Kai-shek· 1887 CE–1975 CE
- Aung San· 1915 CE–1947 CE
- George VI· 1895 CE–1952 CE
- Nikita Khrushchev· 1894 CE–1971 CE
- Edward VIII· 1894 CE–1972 CE
- Haile Selassie I· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Mao Zedong· 1893 CE–1976 CE
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