Motke, Mordkhe, or Mordka are Jewish given names, diminutives of Mordechai. Notable people referred to as Motke include:
Hillel is frequently used as a name. It may refer to:
Adler is a surname of German and Yiddish origin meaning eagle, and has a frequency in the United Kingdom of less than 0.004%, and of 0.008% in the United States. In Christian iconography, the eagle is the symbol of John the Evangelist, and as such a stylized eagle was commonly used as a house sign/totem in German speaking areas. From the tenement the term easily moved to its inhabitants, particularly to those having only one name. This phenomenon can be easily seen in German and Austrian censuses from the 16th and 17th centuries. The term might have been assigned also as a name descriptive of character or outward characteristics. It is also a common Jewish surname among the Ashkenazi community, where it may have derived from a reference to Psalm 103:5. Many notable people with the surname Adler are of Jewish origin, such as Alfred Adler. Adler is also sometimes used to denote the Jewish origins of fictional characters, such as in Mordechai Richler's Son of a Smaller Hero.
Yiddishism is a cultural and linguistic movement which began among Jews in Eastern Europe during the latter part of the 19th century. Some of the leading founders of this movement were Mendele Moykher-Sforim (1836–1917), I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), and Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916).
Unger may refer to:
Leiner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Morpurgo is an Italian surname of Jewish origin. Originally Marpurg, from the Austrian city Marburg an der Drau. Key ancestor was Moises Jacob, father of Petachia, in Bad Radkersburg, Austria. Petachia (1355–1460) had three sons who died in Maribor. Their subsequent multinational progeny took the surnames Maribor, Marburg, Marpurg, Morpurgo, Marlborough, Murphy.
Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter was a leading Yiddish linguist, as well as a writer and educator who spent a lifetime studying, standardizing and teaching the language. Schaechter, whose passion for Yiddish dated to his boyhood in Romania, dedicated his life to reclaiming Yiddish as a living language for the descendants of its first speakers, the Ashkenazic Jewry of central and eastern Europe. He was also the third editor of Afn Shvel (1957–2004), a prestigious Yiddish magazine. He died on February 15, 2007 after a long bout of illness following a stroke in the summer of 2001.
Levin is a surname with several word origins. It is a common Jewish name (Levine/Levin/Levi).
Aronov and Aronoff are Slavic Jewish family names. Notable persons with these names include:
Ben-David is a Hebrew patronymic surname. In Hebrew it means "son of David". It is one of the most common surnames in Israel. It may refer to the following people:
Niemirowski, feminine: Niemirowska is a Polish-language toponymic surname meaning "from Nemyriv " or "from Niemirów (Poland)".
Avram is a male given name. It is a form of the name Abram, which means exalted father.
Gutnick may refer to:
Werdyger, Werdiger, and Verdiger is a surname from the Polish word weredyk, meaning "truthful person".
Herschmann, Herschman, or Hershman may refer to:
Tighe is an Irish surname, derived from the Old Gaelic O Taidhg. Notable persons with that name include:
Rukhl Schaechter is the editor of the Yiddish Forverts, the only remaining Yiddish newspaper outside the Hasidic Jewish world. She is the first woman, the first person born in the United States, and likely the first Sabbath observant Jew to hold that position.
Lotar is German, Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian and Swedish masculine given name that is a modern form of the Germanic Chlothar. People with this name include:
Mordecai Spector was a Yiddish novelist and editor from the Haskalah period. He is the author of about 50 realist novels and short stories depicting the life of ordinary people, workers, artisans, and Jewish families in his time. He is best known for his 1884 novel Der Yidisher Muzhik. He spent most of his life in Ukraine region, then part of the Russian Empire, and moved to the United States in 1921.
Motke Chabad (c.1820-c.1880) was a Jewish Lithuanian (litvak) joker (badchen) from Vilnius known from many Jewish jokes.