Ponevezh

Ponevezh (Lithuanian Panevėžys), a city in northern Lithuania, was the seat of the Ponevezh yeshiva, founded in 1919 and led by Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman (the Ponevezher Rav). After the yeshiva and the community were destroyed in the Holocaust, Rabbi Kahaneman re-established the Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel, in 1944, where it became one of the foremost Lithuanian yeshivot in the world.

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