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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:

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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
  • Moshe Twersky (1955?-2014), son of Isadore Twersky, head of the Toras Moshe kollel
  • Mayer Twersky (born 1960), rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
  • Roy Twersky (born 1964), successful creator of startup Utopy.
  • Yotam Twersky (born 2002), scapegoat and professional YouTuber
  • Victor Twersky (1923–1998), Physicist and IEEE Fellow renowned for his contributions to the Multiple-Scattering Theory, and professor (1966-1990) of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago.

    • Twerski

  • Abraham J. Twerski, hasidic rabbi and psychiatrist
  • Aaron Twerski (born 1940), legal scholar
  • Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twersky, the Rebbe of Chernobyl and early 18th-century founder of the Hassidic Twersky family
  • Rabbi Mordechai Twersky, Maggid of Chernobyl, Rabbi Menachem Nochum's son
  • Rabbi Aaron Twerski of Chernobyl

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

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