Moskowitz (also Moskovitz, Moskovits, Moscovitch, Moskovich, Moszkowicz, 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.

People

Moschcowitz

Moscovich

  • Ivan Moscovich (1926–2023), Yugoslav-Dutch 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

Moscowitz

Moshkovich

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

Moshkovitz

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

Moshkowitz

Moskovitz

Moskowitz

Moszkowicz

  • Bram Moszkowicz (born 1960), a Dutch jurist and former lawyer, son of Max Moszkowicz sr.
  • Daniel Moszkowicz, aka Dawid Chone (1905–1943), Jewish Polish merchant[2]
  • Imo Moszkowicz (1925, Ahlen –2011, Munich), German director, writer and actor[3]
  • Ludwig Moszkowicz (1873–1945), Jewish Polish/Austro-Hungarian surgeon, pathologist[4]
  • Martin Moszkowicz (born 1958), German film producer[5]
  • Max Moszkowicz sr. (born 1926), a retired Dutch lawyer
  • Michał Moszkowicz (born 1941, Magnitogorsk), Jewish Polish writer[6]
  • "Baruch" Robert Moszkowicz (born 1953, Maastricht), son of Max Moszkowicz sr.[7]
  • Ruth Handler (née Moskowicz; 1916–2002), American businesswoman and Barbie doll inventor

In Fiction

  • An American Tail, American franchise of animated films 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

See also

References

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