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Isadore Twersky
Isadore Twersky (Yitzchak (Isaac) Asher Twersky) (October 9, 1930 – October 12, 1997) was an Orthodox rabbi and the ''Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy'' at Harvard University, a chair previously held by Harry Austryn Wolfson. Twersky was an internationally recognized authority on Rabbinic literature and Jewish philosophy. He was especially known as an expert in the writings and influence of the 12th-century Jewish legalist and philosopher Maimonides. His best-known works are, ''An Introduction to the Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah)'', and the more popular anthology, ''A Maimonides Reader.'' He was the editor of the ''Harvard Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature'' (in three volumes), won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989, and was a fellow of both the American Academy for Jewish Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. According to , Twersky can best be characterized as a "historian of ideas and a researcher of the intellectual history of the Jews," and would presumably have considered himself as such.
==Biography==
Twersky was born in Boston in 1930, and attended Boston Latin School and Hebrew College, which was then known as ''Hebrew Teachers' College''. His Torah knowledge was largely acquired through diligent private study rather than formal yeshiva instruction . He graduated from Harvard in 1952, where he majored in history. In 1949, he was one of the first students to spend a year abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he developed relationships with such scholarly and literary giants as Gershom Scholem, Yitzhak Baer, Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson and Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon.
Upon his graduation from Harvard he began studies toward a doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, under the guidance of the scholar of medieval philosophy, Harry Austryn Wolfson. His doctorate was on the twelfth century Provençal Talmudist, Rabbi Abraham ben David of Posquières (Rabad), which, when subsequently published under the title ''Rabad of Posquières: A Twelfth-Century Talmudist'', was one of the first academic portraits of a Talmudist written at an American university .
A scion of the Hasidic dynasty of Chernobyl, Twersky succeeded his father as the Talner Rebbe of Boston for the last twenty years of his life. He was a son-in-law of Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik. His elder son, Rabbi Mosheh Twersky, was a lecturer at Yeshivas Toras Moshe. He was murdered on the morning of Nov. 18th 2014 in a terrorist attack while praying in a Jerusalem synagogue. His other son, Rabbi Mayer Twersky, holds the Leib Merkin Distinguished Professorial Chair in Talmud and Jewish Philosophy and is a rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University. His daughter Tzipporah Rosenblatt is a lawyer. She is married to Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Rosenblatt, who serves as the rabbi of the Riverdale Jewish Center in New York City.
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