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Rebbe Yisroel Twersky

November 3rd, 2008 · 13 Comments

Koznitzer Rebbe
d. 9 Shevat, 1954
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Mount Hebron Cemetery
130-04 Horace Harding Expressway
(Main Street Cemetery in Kew Gardens Hills)
Flushing, NY 11367
(Block 60, Gate 10)

Tags: Admorim · Mt. Hebron (Main Street) Cemetery · New York · Queens / L.I., NY

13 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Menachem Mendel // Nov 3, 2008 at 7:03 pm

    The Rebbe was a cohen, how was he a descendant of the Chernobyler Maggid?

  • 2 lizensk12 // Nov 3, 2008 at 7:09 pm

    Interesting, he is not in the Twersky book, maybe from his mothers side??? I?ll look into it.

  • 3 yitz twersky // Nov 3, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    Not sure why he is listed on your website – he was not a rebbe at all. His real name was schwartz and he was a schochet who came to america and took the name twersky. He was not a descendant of ANYONE listed on his tombstone. have all his naturalization, name change, ship records which show the schwartz information. His descendants “claim” that they have a family tree which states how he is a twersky but cannot show it to anyone………..

  • 4 J. Hirsch // Nov 3, 2008 at 7:33 pm

    In his sefer Eini Yisroel (avilible @ http://www.hebrewbooks.org) he has an Haskome from the Monostriche Rebbe who writes that they were cousins.

    He does not indicate a clear Yichus, he was also Rav in Paterson NJ before moving to Brooklyn.

  • 5 Baruch A // Nov 3, 2008 at 7:54 pm

    At the very least he was a Moreh D?Asrah.

  • 6 ben // Nov 5, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    yitz you have a problem…

  • 7 yitz twersky // Nov 9, 2008 at 2:29 pm

    ben

    i do have a problem with someone claiming to be someone else. Would welcome to share with you any information.

    Yitz

  • 8 Chernobyl // Nov 10, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    how do you know he was a cohen?

  • 9 Baruch A // Nov 10, 2008 at 10:09 pm

    Its on the tombstone.

  • 10 Reb Elya // Dec 7, 2010 at 7:16 pm

    If it says that he was a Rav, then he probably was a Rav.

  • 11 Ben Bee Zee // Dec 8, 2010 at 2:06 pm

    The issue was discussed at length at
    http://www.yiddishworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=5797&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

  • 12 azi // Dec 8, 2010 at 7:47 pm

    If he told the Manaztrizter that he was a Linitz descendant then the Manastrizter figured he was and wrote that they were related. I’m sure he didn’t go onto Ancestry.com to verify this fellows story.

    I have a feeling that in 1925 rebbe’s were not busy eating honey cake with guests and figuring out how many ways they were related to each other.

  • 13 Reb Elya // Jan 2, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    SPEAKING LOSHON HARA ABOUT A YID?

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