Rebbe Yisroel Twersky
ישראל ב"ר שלמה זאב הכהן
Koznitzer Rebbe of BrooklynDate of Death:
Wed. January 13, 1954 -
Shevat 9 5714
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Directions to Kever: Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map upon request. Location: Block: 60, Reference: 10, Section: G, Society: CH RYEM AHOVIM MOH POLEN, along the road.
Name Listed on Cemetery Database: TWERSKY, ISRAEL
Biographical Notes:
Photo Caption: Rebbe Yisroel Twersky, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives
Credit: IFJCAH
Credit: MCA
Photo Caption: Drawing attributed to Rebbe Yisroel Hopstien, Maggid of Kozhnitz d. 1814
Credit: Shmuel Amsel, Brooklyn, NY
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The Rebbe was a cohen, how was he a descendant of the Chernobyler Maggid?
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………..
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.
yitz you have a problem…
ben
i do have a problem with someone claiming to be someone else. Would welcome to share with you any information.
Yitz
how do you know he was a cohen?
Its on the tombstone.
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.
Twersky for Preshbourg?
I have a very interesting, unpublished manuscript authored by him. It’s written in impressive Hebrew, and it’s entitled Ein Emunah. It’s sort of a vol. 2 of his published sefer Einei Yisrael, but this volume deals with faith, and he shows a great proficiency in the medieval philosophical works such as the Kuzari, Moreh, Ohr Hashem, Ikkarim…
Jacob Djmal
thejewishbookery@gmail.com
Why is he on this website?
Nothing on this matzeiva is true lol
He was just trying to make a living for his mishpacha.I guess Chernobyl brought in the dollars until the Hungarian Rebbes started arriving. LOL.