Background
Isadore Twersky was born as Yitzchak Asher Twersky on October 9, 1930, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Twersky came from a long line of Talner rabbis. Rabbi Meshullam Zalman Twersky was his father.
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Twersky earned a bachelor's degree in 1952, a master's in 1953, and a doctorate in 1956 from Harvard University. He also worked there from 1956 to 1965 as a professor of Hebrew literature and philosophy, as well as a chairman of Department of Near Eastern Languages from 1965 to 1978, and was a director of Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies from 1978 to 1993.
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Twersky was educated at Boston Latin School.
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Twersky was educated at Hebrew Teachers' College (now Hebrew College).
Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Twersky earned a bachelor's degree in 1952, a master's in 1953, and a doctorate in 1956 from Harvard University. He also worked there from 1956 to 1965 as a professor of Hebrew literature and philosophy, as well as a chairman of Department of Near Eastern Languages from 1965 to 1978, and was a director of Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies from 1978 to 1993.
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(This rich little volume, which substantively enhances our...)
This rich little volume, which substantively enhances our knowledge and appreciation of R. Moses Nahmanides, contains an introduction by Isadore Twersky and five original and learned articles by well-known scholars.
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1983
Isadore Twersky was born as Yitzchak Asher Twersky on October 9, 1930, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Twersky came from a long line of Talner rabbis. Rabbi Meshullam Zalman Twersky was his father.
Twersky was educated at Boston Latin School and Hebrew Teachers' College (now Hebrew College). He then entered Harvard University. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1952, a master's in 1953, and a doctorate in 1956.
Twersky joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1956 as a professor of Hebrew literature and philosophy, serving as a chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Languages from 1965. He held the position of a director of Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies from 1978 to 1993. Over the course of his thirty years at Harvard, Twersky taught a large number of graduate students.
Twersky's writings mostly focused on medieval Jewish thinkers and his first book, Rabad of Posquieres: A Twelfth-Century Talmudist, was published in 1962. He edited and wrote introductions for Maimonides Reader (1972) and From Philo to Spinoza: Two Studies in Religious Philosophy (1977), and edited Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature (1979) and Rabbi Moses Nahmanides: Explorations in His Religious and Literary Virtuosity (1983). Other books of Twersky’s include Introduction to the Code of Maimonides: Mishneh Tora (1980), Studies in Jewish Law and Philosophy (1982) and Danzig: Between East and West (1985). He was co-editor of Studies in the History and Philosophy and Religion (1973). His expertise made him a hot commodity for lectures at universities worldwide. At the time of his death, Twersky was Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy and a consultant to the Rogosin Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University in New York City.
(This rich little volume, which substantively enhances our...)
1983(English text of Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed, Mishne...)
1972Twersky was a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Twersky was the son-in-law of the eminent rabbinic thinker and scholar Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. He was married to Atarah Soloveitchik. The couple produced three children - Mosheh Twersky, Mayer Twersky and Tzipporah Rosenblatt.