Twersky
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
- David Twersky , spiritual leader of Skverer Hasidim
- Isadore Twersky scholar of Rabbinic literature and Jewish philosophy
- Mayer Twersky, rosh yeshiva 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, son of Isadore Twersky, head of the kollel in Yeshiva Toras Moshe
- Shmuel Abba Twersky, Makarover Rebbe of Winnipeg, Canada
- Victor Twersky, physicist and IEEE Fellow who has contributed to the multiple-scattering theory.
Twerski
- Aaron Twerski, 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, Hasidic rabbi
- Abraham J. Twerski, Hasidic rabbi and psychiatrist
- Michel Twerski, Hasidic rabbi and composer.
Tversky
- Amos Tversky, cognitive and mathematical psychologist
- Barbara Tversky, American cognitive psychologist