Moskowitz

Not to be confused with Moskvitch.

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

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

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 [1]

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
• Clara Moskowitz, American science journalist
• Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, née Moskowitz, a food and wine writer, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 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), American member of the House of Representatives for Florida's 23rd district
• 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 (1905–1943), Jewish Polish merchant
• Imo Moszkowicz (1925, Ahlen –2011, Munich), German director, writer and actor
• Ludwig Moszkowicz (1873–1945), Jewish Polish/Austro-Hungarian surgeon, pathologist
• Martin Moszkowicz (born 1958), German film producer
• Max Moszkowicz sr. (born 1926), a retired Dutch lawyer
• Michał Moszkowicz (born 1941, Magnitogorsk), Jewish Polish writer
• "Baruch" Robert Moszkowicz (born 1953, Maastricht), son of Max Moszkowicz sr.
• 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

See also

• Moskvitch (disambiguation)
• Moscovici (Romanian form)