Twersky Explained

Twersky, Twerski, or Tverski is the surname of a pedigree of rebbes in the Chernobyl Hasidic dynasty. It was begun by the Grand Rabbi Menachum Nachum Twerski. People with this name include:

Twersky

• David Twersky (journalist) (1950–2010), journalist
• David Twersky (Skverer Rebbe) (born 1940), spiritual leader of Skverer Hasidim
• Isadore Twersky (1930–1997) scholar of Rabbinic literature and Jewish philosophy
• Mayer Twersky (born 1960), rosh yeshiva (dean) at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
• Menachem Nachum Twersky, the rebbe of Chernobyl and early 18th-century founder of the Hasidic Twersky family
• Mordechai Twersky, Maggid of Chernobyl, Menachem Nochum's son
  • Moshe Twersky (1955?-2014), son of Isadore Twersky, head of the kollel in Yeshiva Toras Moshe Shmuel Abba Twersky (1872–1947), Makarover Rebbe of Winnipeg, Canada
• Victor Twersky (1923–1998), physicist and IEEE Fellow who has contributed to the multiple-scattering theory.

Twerski

• Aaron Twerski (born 1939), American lawyer and the Irwin and Jill Cohen Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, as well as a former Dean and professor of tort law at Hofstra University School of Law
• Aaron Twerski of Chernobyl (1784–1871), Hasidic rabbi
• Abraham J. Twerski (1930–2021), Hasidic rabbi and psychiatrist
• Michel Twerski (born 1939), Hasidic rabbi and composer.

Tversky

• Amos Tversky (1937–1996), cognitive and mathematical psychologist
• Barbara Tversky, American cognitive psychologist