Chernobyl dynasty

Olga Loginova’s film - the famous Hasidi family from Chernobyl

Yitzhak Meir Tversky lives in the New York area Kuins with his wife Elke and five children. He is a descendant of the famous Khasids dynasty, whose family came from Chernobyl-long before this Ukrainian city became known to the whole world due to an accident at the nuclear power plant.

Yitzhak Tversky, in biblis, lists his ancestors: “My father was Rabbi Jacob Joseph Tversky from Bronx, New York. His father was Mordechai Israel Tversky from the Ukrainian city of Khotin. His father was Barukh Meir Tversky, also from Ukraine, and his father was Menacham Nakhum Tversky, who lived in Chernobyl. Mordechai Tversky, the Great Rabbi of Chernobyl, and his father was the very first Tver, Menham Nakhum Tver, from Chernobyl. "

Menaham Nakhum Tversky, the first in the history of Tversky, was a student of the founder of the orthodox Hasida movement in Judaism Baal Sheme Gorya. He was born around 1730 and in the 1770s settled in Chernobyl, and later became a rabbi of the city.

The film of Olga Loginova talks about the Chernobyl dynasty of the Tver and how her descendant, living today in New York, keeps the heritage of the family.