Kovno (Kaunas)קובנא
Lithuania — Mussar movement hub
Kovno (Kaunas) was the Lithuanian Torah center where R. Yisrael Salanter taught and the Slabodka and Kovno Kollels flourished. R. Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor served as its chief rabbi (1864-1896), making Kovno the responsa capital of Lithuanian Jewry. R. Avraham Dov Kahana-Shapiro (Devar Avraham) succeeded him.
14 teachers
Teachers who lived here
R. Yisrael Salanter
Yisrael ben Ze'ev Wolf Lipkin Salanter (founder of Mussar) (1809–1883)
rabbinate 1848–1857
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R. Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor
R. Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor (Kovno) (1817–1896)
death 1868–1896
Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin
Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818–1898)
rabbinate 1850
Alter of Kelm
Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv (1824–1898)
study 1840
Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer
Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer (1837–1907)
rabbinate 1880–1891
Rabbi Eliezer Gordon
Rabbi Eliezer Gordon (1841–1910)
study 1860–1874
Alter of Navardhok
Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horowitz (1847–1919)
study 1874–1890
Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahana-Shapiro
Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahana-Shapiro (1851–1923)
rabbinate 1907–1913
Marcheshes
Rabbi Chanoch Henoch Eigis (1863–1941)
study 1880–1898
Rabbi Avraham Dov Ber Kahana Shapiro
Rabbi Avraham Dov Ber Kahana Shapiro (1870–1943)
death 1943
R. Tzvi Pesach Frank
Tzvi Pesach Frank (Har Tzvi) (1873–1960)
birth 1873–1892
R. Elchonon Wasserman
Elchonon Bunim Wasserman (1875–1941)
death 1941
Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz
Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz (1902–1979)
birth 1902
Rabbi Ephraim Oshry
Rabbi Ephraim Oshry (1908–2003)
death 1941–1945