The Trisk dynasty is a

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, a branch of the Chernobyl dynasty, originating in

Turiisk Turiisk ( ua, Турійськ) is an urban settlement (town) in Volyn Oblast (province) in Ukraine, located in the historic region of the Volhynia. It is located in Kovel Raion. Population: History During World War II, in 1942, Jews of the vi ...

. The

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s of the court also served in

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, before the

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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

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

Chernobyl Chernobyl ( , ; russian: Чернобыль, ) or Chornobyl ( uk, Чорнобиль, ) is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about n ...

Post Holocaust

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

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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

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), eldest son of Rabbi Menachem Nuchem ***Grand Rabbi Shulem Yoseph Twersky (born 1883 at Turisk, died February 8, 1945 in

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), son of Rabbi Mordechai Zishe ****Grand Rabbi Sroyahu Yonah Twersky, grandson of Rabbi Shulem Yoseph. ***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 Bnei Brak or Bene Beraq ( he, בְּנֵי בְּרַק ) is a city located on the central Mediterranean coastal plain in Israel, just east of Tel Aviv. A center of Haredi Judaism, Bnei Brak covers an area of 709 hectares (1752 acres, or 2.7 ...

, Israel), son of Rabbi Mordechai Zishe ****Grand Rabbi Chaim Menachem Avrohom Twersky (born February 27, 1915 at Zinkov, died December 1, 2010 at Hackney,

), 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 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

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), second son of Rabbi Menachem Nuchem *Grand Rabbi Mordche Twersky of Kozmir (born 1840, died June 20, 1915 at

Kielce Kielce (, yi, קעלץ, Keltz) is a city in southern Poland, and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the ban ...

), 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,

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), third son of Grand Rabbi Avraham. **Grand Rabbi Moshe Mordechei Twersky (born 1877 at Turisk, perished May 13, 1943 at

Bełżec extermination camp Belzec (English: or , Polish: ) was a Nazi German extermination camp built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder all Polish Jews, a major part of the " Final Solution" which in tota ...

), 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.

References

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