Yankel

Yankel, Yankele, Yankl, Jankiel, Jankel is a Jewish given name. It is a Yiddish diminutive (Yiddish: יאַנקל) of Jacob. It is also used as a surname.

Yankelevich is a Russian-language patronymic surname derived from the name. Other derived surnames include Janklow, Yankelova, Jankelowitz.

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

  • Jankel Adler
  • Yankel Feather (1920-2009), British painter
  • Yankele Hershkowitz
  • Jacob Kruger [be] (1869-1940) Jewish Belarusian painter
  • Iankel-Meïer Nokhim-Aronovich Milkin or Jacques Milkin [fr] (1877-1944), Jewish Russian and French painter
  • Yankel Rosenthal, the namesake of the Estadio Yankel Rosenthal, Honduras
  • Yankel Talmud (1885-1965), Hasidic composer
  • Jankiel Wiernik (1889-1972), Holocaust survivor
  • Yankl Yankelevich [ru] (1905-1938), Jewish Moldavian writer and poet
  • Yankel was the birth name of Yakov Yurovsky (1878-1938), Jewish Russian revolutionary, best known for the assassination of the family of Tsar Nicholas II
  • Yankel Zhuravitzer (1897–1938), rabbi and underground Chabad-Lubavitch activist in the Soviet Union

Surname

Fictional characters

  • Jankiel [pl] (also translated as Yankel), fictional tavernkeeper and musician in epic poem Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
  • Yankele ben Itzhok, the sidekick of The King of Schnorrers

See also