Zelikovitch

Zelikovitch (Hebrew: זליקוביץ׳, Yiddish: זעליקאָוויטש, Polish: Zelikowicz), also spelled Zelikovich or Zelikowitz, is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname. It is derived from the Yiddish-language personal name Zelig. The Slavic suffix "-ovich" means "son of".

The surname may refer to:

  • Getzel Zelikovitch, Egyptologist, writer, journalist and translator
  • Elimelekh Zelikovich, commander of the first instructors' course of the Hagana underground in the 1920s
  • Reuven Zelicovici (later Rubin), Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania
  • Antonina Zelikovich, Russian rower
  • Miriam Eshkol (née Zelikovich), wife of Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol

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