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) (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