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R. Dov Arye son of R. Nachum Ulshvang

Kārsava / Kursovka

Born in 5639 (1879) in the town of Lauknimukai, district of Kovna.

He studied at the Telshe yeshiva, the assembly of young scholars in Brisk, the assembly of married scholars in Kelm, and in Vilna. Son-in-law of R. Baruch Ze'ev Minkin, rabbi of Griva.

From 5666 (1906) he served as rabbi of Peidruya (Freidroysk),1) and from 5668 (1908) served as rabbi of Griva in his father-in-law's place.

He served as rabbi here from 5679 (1919) until the Second World War.2)

He passed away of starvation in Samarkand on 22 Tevet 5702 (11 January 1942).

The great rabbis of Latvia, the Geonim R. Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk and the Gaon of Rogatchov, held him dear and drew him close.

Responsa to him were printed in Darkhei Shalom (pp. 242, sections 4–5) and in Tsafnat Pa'aneach (Dvinsk 5700, sections 56, 72): “to my dear friend, the sharp and expert scholar, organized and analytical, etc., our master R. Dov Arye, may he live, rabbi in Karsovka,” and likewise sections 75, 77 were written to him (where he further calls him “discerning in quiet study”).

In the responsa Tsafnat Pa'aneach HaChadashot, vol. 3, section 34, his letter and the response to it appear. In the collection Pri Etz Chaim, vol. 2 (Telshe, Sivan 5699), a note from him was printed.

Yahadut Latviya, p. 370. Latvia: Batei Knesset VeRabbanim, p. 236, where it states he was born in Griva.

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
Also called Freidroisk — Fridroysk, Pridruysk, located near Krasava which is near Dvinsk. Until the First World War it was one city called Droya, and after the war when the border with Poland was established the city was divided in two (on both sides of the river) — Droya in Poland and Peidruya remained within the state of Latvia.
2)
According to Latvia: Batei Knesset VeRabbanim, he also served as rabbi in Dvinsk from 5675 (1915), but I have found no corroboration for this in other sources.