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I have a very interesting, unpublished manuscript authored by him.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.
Rabbi Pini Dunner has his fascinating history on youtube.
In short though, he is not a rebbishe einikel.