Abramowicz
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Abramowicz, Abramovich, Abramowitz, and Abramovitz are variant spellings of a name meaning "son of Abraham" among Slavic language speaking peoples; it is a common surname among Ashkenazi Jews,[1][2] for whom it is commonly Hebraized to Ben-Avraham (בן-אברהם) upon immigration to Israel.
A similar surname of peoples from the former Yugoslavia is Abramović.
Some people with these names include:
Abramowicz (Polish)
- Andrzej Abramowicz (died 1763) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman.
- Danny Abramowicz (1945-), American football player
- Dawid Abramowicz (born 1991), Polish footballer
- Halina Abramowicz, Professor of Physics, Tel Aviv University and Max Planck Institute
- Hirsz Abramowicz (1881–1960), prominent Yiddish historian and writer[3]
- Kazimierz Abramowicz (1889–1936), Polish mathematician
- Leo Abramowicz (1889–1978), Jewish Austrian painter
- Lisa Abramowicz, American television and radio host
- Manuel Abramowicz (born 1967), Belgian reporter
- Michel Abramowicz (1950-), French cinematographer
- Michał Abramowicz (1884–1965), Russian and Soviet geologist
- Sławomir Abramowicz (born 2004), Polish footballer
- Tomasz Abramowicz (born 15 February 1979 in Ełk) is a Polish professional football player
- Witold Abramowicz, a Polish scientist
- Yehuda Meir Abramowicz, (1914–2007), Israeli rabbi and politician
Abramovich (Russian: Абрамо́вич)
- Alexander Abramovich (Alexander "Sasha" Argov; 1914–95), Russian-born Israeli composer
- Luis Abramovich (born 1962), Argentine footballer
- Mario Abramovich (1926–2014), Argentine musician
- Roman Abramovich (born 1966), Russian billionaire and former owner of Chelsea Football Club
- Vsevolod Abramovich (1890–1913), Russian aviator
- Yuri Abramovich (1935–2017), Soviet/Russian aircraft pilot and Hero of Russia
- Abramovitch
- Raphael Abramovitch (1880–1963), Russian socialist
- Abramovitz
- Max Abramovitz (1908–2004), American architect
- Moses Abramovitz (1912–2000), American economist and professor
- Orit Abramovitz, Israeli Olympic athlete
- S. Y. Abramovitz aka Mendele Mocher Sforim (1836–1917), Jewish author from Belarus
- Abramowitz
- Chaim Zanvl Abramowitz (1902–1995), American Hasidic rebbe
- Dov Ber Abramowitz (1860–1926), American Rabbi
- Pinchas Abramowitz, (1909–1986), Israeli artist
- Milton Abramowitz (1915–1958), American mathematician
- Sid Abramowitz (1960-), American football player
- Morton I. Abramowitz (born 1933), American diplomat
- Yosef Abramowitz (born 1964), Israeli businessman
References
[edit]- ^ Guggenheimer, Heinrich Walter; Guggenheimer, Eva Auguste Horowitz (1992). Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary. Hoboken, N.J: KTAV Publishing House. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-88125-297-2. OCLC 25093664.
- ^ A Sourcebook for Genealogical Research: Resources Alphabetically by Type and Location, McFarland, 13 May 2004
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, Volume 1, edited by Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum (Granite Hill Publishers, 2007), page 324
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