Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman (1886–1969), Hebrew: יוסף שלמה כהנמן, Yiddish: יוסף שלמה כהנעמאן, known also as Ponevezher Rav, was an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva. He was a renowned Torah and Talmudic scholar, a distinguished member of the Council of Torah Sages of Agudath Israel.
Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman
Ponevezh Yeshiva, often pronounced as Ponevitch Yeshiva, is a yeshiva founded in 1908 in Panevėžys (Ponevezh), Lithuania, and located today in Bnei Brak, Israel since 1944. The yeshiva has over three thousand students, including those of affiliated institutions, and is considered one of the leading Litvish yeshivas in Israel.
Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel
The yeshiva in 1949
Yeshiva students studying
Students swimming in the yeshiva's pool, 1945