'''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
== 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
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