Moskowitz
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
- Eli Moschcowitz (1879–1964), Hungarian-born American doctor
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
- Jennie Moscowitz - (1867/1868 - 1953), American actress
Moshkovich
Moshkovitz
- Omer 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
Moskowitz
- Abraham Moskowitz Yiddish-language singer
- Avigdor Moskowitz (born 1953), Israeli basketball player
- Barry Ted Moskowitz (born 1950, Paterson, New Jersey), United States federal judge
- Belle Moskowitz, political advisor to New York Governor and 1928 presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith
- Bezalel Joshua Moskowitz[2]
- Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, née Moskowitz, a food and wine writer, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Ehud Moskowitz (Moshkovitsh)[3]
- Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, character in TV series Cobra Kai
- Eva Moskowitz, educator and former City Council member in New York City
- Eve Merriam, née Moskovitz (1916–1992, Philadelphia), an American poet
- Gilberte Marin-Moskovitz (1937–2019), French politician
- 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 Dawid Chone (1905, Warsaw - 1943, Białystok), Jewish Polish merchant[4]
- Imo Moszkowicz (1925, Ahlen - 2011, Munich), German director, writer and actor[5]
- Ludwig Moszkowicz (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
- Michał Moszkowicz (born 1941, Magnitogorsk), Jewish Polish writer[8]
- "Baruch" Robert Moszkowicz (born 1953, Maastricht), son of Max Moszkowicz sr.[9]
- 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
- Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, a New York City law firm founded in 1979
- Moschkowitz Syndrome (Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura), named after discoverer Eli Moschkowitz
References
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