About Dovid Povarsky
Lived 1902 – 1999 (aged 96–97). Dovid Povarsky was an Israeli rabbi and rosh yeshiva.
Yehoshua Dovid Povarsky (; 1902–1999) 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.
Works Yeshuas Dovid (7 volumes) Shiurei Reb Dovid Povarsky on various Tractates Yishmeru Da'as consisting of various Mussar discourses which he delivered
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Israeli rabbi
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Dovid Povarsky died in 1999.
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