Skvyra (Skver)

Ukraine

Skvyra (Yiddish Skver), a town in Kyiv Oblast, central Ukraine, was the seat of the Skver chasidic dynasty, a branch of the Chernobyl dynasty founded in the nineteenth century by Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky, a son of the Maggid of Chernobyl. After emigration to the United States, the dynasty established the village of New Square in Rockland County, New York.

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