Trisk (Hasidic dynasty)

The Trisk dynasty is a Volyn (then in the Russian Empire, today Ukraine) Hasidic dynasty, a branch of the Chernobyl dynasty, originating in Turiisk, Ukraine. The rebbes of the court also served in Poland, before the Second World War it was a large court of some 20,000 Hasidim (followers).

Today there are several descendants of the lineage, but they have no real court.

First generation[]

The first rebbe of Trisk was Grand Rabbi Avraham Twersky (born 1806, died July 1, 1889 in Turisk), son of Grand Rabbi Mordechai Twersky of Chernobyl.

Post Holocaust[]

Grand Rabbi Menachem Mendel Matisyohu Twersky is known as the Trisker Rebbe of London.

Lineage[]

• Grand Rabbi Menachem Nuchem Twersky (born June 23, 1829, died 1887 at Brisk), eldest son of Grand Rabbi Avraham.
  • Grand Rabbi Mordechai Zishe Twersky of Trisk-Iasi (died March 18, 1932 in Romania), eldest son of Rabbi Menachem Nuchem
    • Grand Rabbi Shulem Yoseph Twersky (born 1883 at Turisk, died February 8, 1945 in New York City), son of Rabbi Mordechai Zishe
    • Grand Rabbi David Twersky of Buhusi (born 1884 at Turisk, died December 9, 1933 in Iasi), son of Rabbi Mordechai Zishe and son-in-law of Rabbi Yisroel Sholom Yosef Friedman of Bohush
    • Grand Rabbi Yakov Leib Twersky (born 1885 at Turisk, died October 12, 1979 in Bnei Brak, Israel), son of Rabbi Mordechai Zishe
      • Grand Rabbi Chaim Menachem Avrohom Twersky (born February 27, 1915 at Zinkov, died December 1, 2010 at Hackney, London), son of Rabbi Yakov Leib
        • Grand Rabbi Mordechai Zisye Twersky, son of Rabbi Chaim Menachem Avrohom
      • Grand Rabbi Pinchos Twersky of Trisk-London (born May 17, 1916 at Zinkov, died August 12, 2001 at London), son of Rabbi Yakov Leib
        • Grand Rabbi Menachem Mendel Matisyohu Twersky of London (born December 9, 1946 at London), son of Rabbi Pinchos
        • Grand Rabbi Gavriel Gluck of Trisk-London (died July 06, 2004 in U.S. after Sheva Brochos from his daughter), son-in-law of Rabbi Pinchos
          • Grand Rabbi Yitzchok Duvid Twersky of Trisk-Tolna. Son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Matisyohu

• • Grand Rabbi Moishe Yide Leib Twersky of Chelem (born 1873 at Tolna, died 1938 at Warsaw, Poland), second son of Rabbi Menachem Nuchem
• Grand Rabbi Mordche Twersky of Kozmir (born 1840, died June 20, 1915 at Kielce), second son of Grand Rabbi Avraham.
• Grand Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Leib Twersky of Trisk-Hrubieszow (born 1847 at Turisk, died May 10, 1918 in Gmina Hrubieszów, Lublin), third son of Grand Rabbi Avraham.
  • Grand Rabbi Moshe Mordechei Twersky (born 1877 at Turisk, perished May 13, 1943 at Bełżec extermination camp), son of Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Leib
  • Grand Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Eichenstein, Trisker Rebbe of Yerushalayim, The great-grandson of Grand Rabbi Moshe Mordechai of Trisk.

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