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
- 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
- Rabbi David Twersky - Founder of the Tolna hassidic court
- 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 Twerski, the Rebbe of Chernobyl - early 18th century founder of the Hassidic Twersky family
- Rabbi Mordechai Twerski, Magid of Chernobyl, Rabbi Menachem Nochum's son
- Rabbi Aaron Twerski of Chernobyl
- Shlomo Twerski (deceased), famed rabbi and mystic
Tversky
- Amos Tversky (1937–1996), cognitive and mathematical psychologist
- Barbara Tversky, American cognitive psychologist