Yisroel Aryeh Zalmanowitz (December 29, 1916–June 23, 2003) was an Ashkenazi rosh yeshiva in Bursha before the Holocaust.

[1] Zalmanowitz was born on December 29, 1916, in Kechnia, Austria-Hungary (now Bogdan Vodă, Romania).

[1][2] In his youth, Zalmanowitz studied in several yeshivas in Transylvania, including Vișeu de Sus and Cluj, where he became one of the most prominent disciples of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam.

[1] Rabbi Zalmanowitz married in 1941 as was appointed one of the Roshei Yeshiva in Borșa (Bursha).

Rabbi Zalmanowitz survived the Holocaust and was liberated in Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945.