Moskowitz

Moskowitz (also Moskovitz, Moscovitch, Moskovich, Moskovits, and other variants) is an Eastern Ashkenazic Jewish surname. A Germanized form of a Slavic patronymic of the Yiddish personal name Moshke, a pet form of Moshe. Moscovici is the Romanian form, Moszkowicz is the Polish form.

See also Moskvitch.

People[]

Moschcowitz[]

• Eli Moschcowitz (1879–1964), Hungarian-born American doctor

Moscovich[]

• Ivan Moscovich (born 1926), a designer of games, puzzles, toys, and educational aids
• Maurice Moscovich (1871–1940), Russian-American actor

Moscovitch[]

• Dylan Moscovitch (born 1984), Canadian Olympic medalist pair skater
• Hannah Moscovitch (born 1978), a Canadian female playwright
• Morris Moscovitch, the Max & Gianna Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Aging and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto

Moshkovich[]

• (Russian: Зельман Мошкович Чернявский; 1903–1968), a Jewish Soviet cinematographer^[1]

Moshkovitz[]

• , actor
• Shulem Moshkovitz (died 1958), Romania-born rabbi, known as the Shotzer Rebbe

Moshkowitz[]

• Dana Moshkovitz, Israeli computer scientist

Moskovitz[]

• Dustin Moskovitz, American businessman
• Rabbi Dan Moskovitz[1]

Moskowitz[]

• Abraham Moskowitz Yiddish-language singer
• Avigdor Moskowitz (born 1953), Israeli basketball player
• Barry Ted Moskowitz (born 1950, Patterson, New Jersey), United States federal judge
• Belle Moskowitz, political advisor to New York Governor and 1928 presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith
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• Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, née Moskowitz, a food and wine writer, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• (Moshkovitsh)^[3]
• Eva Moskowitz, educator and former City Council member in New York City
• Eve Merriam, née Moskovitz (born 1916, Philadelphia), an American poet
• Gordon Moskowitz, social psychologist
• Hannah Moskowitz (born 1991), American author
• Henry Moskowitz, civil rights leader
• Henry Moskowitz, New York real estate investor
• Howard Moskowitz, American market researcher and psychophysicist
• Irving Moskowitz, Jewish American businessman and philanthropist
• Isa Chandra Moskowitz, American-born cookbook author
• Jared E. Moskowitz (born 1980), youngest elected official in South Florida
• Joel Moskowitz, American public health researcher
• Joseph Moskowitz, Romanian-born American cimbalom player and Restaurateur
• Miriam Moskowitz. American convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice during the McCarthy era
• Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz (Moskowitz), a Melitzer Rebbe of Ashdod
• Ohad Moskowitz (born 1974), Orthodox Jewish singer
• Paul Moskowitz, Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY
• Robert Moskowitz, American painter
• Sam Moskowitz, writer, critic, and historian
• Sid Moscowitz, character in the 1990 film Alice
• Stacy Moskowitz, shooting victim of David Berkowitz
• Stanley Moskowitz, top official of the Central Intelligence Agency
• Tobias Jacob "Toby" Moskowitz (born 1971), an American financial economist and professor

Moszkowicz[]

• Bram Moszkowicz (born 1960), a Dutch jurist and former lawyer, son of Max Moszkowicz sr.
• Daniel Moszkowicz, aka (1905, Warsaw - 1943, Białystok), Jewish Polish merchant^[4]
• (1925, Ahlen - 2011, Munich), German director, writer and actor^[5]
• (1873, Kraków - 1945, Vienna), Jewish Polish/Austro-Hungarian surgeon, pathologist^[6]
• Martin Moszkowicz (born 1958), German film producer^[7]
• Max Moszkowicz sr. (born 1926), a retired Dutch lawyer
• (born 1941, Magnitogorsk), Jewish Polish writer^[8]
• (born 1953, Maastricht), son of Max Moszkowicz sr.^[9]

In Fiction[]

• An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, an animated comedy film where the protagonist is a mouse named Fievel Mousekewitz (word play on Moskowitz)
• "Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz", the tenth episode in season 6 of American sitcom Frasier
• Minnie and Moskowitz, a film by John Cassavetes
• Princess Diaries series of books by Meg Cabot where Moscovitz siblings, Michael and Lilly, are the oldest friends of protagonist Mia Thermopolis and important characters of the story.

Other[]

• Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, a New York City law firm founded in 1979
• Moschkowitz Syndrome (Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura), named after discoverer Eli Moschkowitz

See also[]

• Moskvitch (disambiguation)
• Moscovici (Romanian form)

Surname list

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