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 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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