Abramowicz Explained
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
- 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
- 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)
- Abramovitch
- Abramovitz
- Abramowitz
Notes and References
- Book: Guggenheimer
, Heinrich Walter
. Heinrich Guggenheimer. Guggenheimer. Eva Auguste Horowitz. Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary. KTAV Publishing House. Hoboken, N.J. 1992. 978-0-88125-297-2. 25093664. 6.
- 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