Vishnevits, Dovid-Arn
1866-
He was born in the city of Kovno, Lithuania. He studied in religious elementary school and yeshivas, and he received rabbinical ordination. He lived for a long period of time in Krakinove (Krekenava), Lithuania, not wishing to join the rabbinate, but taking up the profession of a barber.
In 1896 he immigrated to Johannesburg, South Africa. He was the author of religious works, in Hebrew with some Yiddish: Mate Aharon (The Staff Aron), “in the light of mysterious homiletical writings,” with a treatise on the Ten Tribes (Vilna, 1899), published in several editions, the last in Zamość in 1930 (209 pp.); Peninim Yekarim (Precious Jems), sermons on the Torah in Yiddish, the last edition appeared in Jerusalem in 1930 (96 pp.); Imre Daat (Words of Wisdom), last edition in New York in 1918 (16 pp.).
He died in Israel.
Sources: Ben-Tsiyon Ayzenshadt, Dorot haaḥaronim (Generation of the Later ones) (New York, 1913), p. 131; Bet eked Sefarim.