// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did Motke break up with his pillow for? A down fall.
Motke, Mordke, Mordkhe, or Mordka are Jewish given names, diminutives of Mordechai. Notable people referred to as Motke include:
- Aaron Kosminski born Aron Mordke Kozmiński
- Mordka Towbin
- Mordka Mendel Grossman
- Motke Rosenthal, or Márk Rózsavölgyi (1787-1848), Jewish Hungarian composer and violinist
- Mordechai (Motke) Maklef (1920–1978), Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
- Motke Chabad (19th century), Jewish Lithuanian jester from Vilnius
- Mordka Mendel Grossman (1913-1945), photographer and worker in the Statistical Department of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto
- Mordka was the birth given name of Mark Zamenhof (1837-1907)
- Mordkhe Schaechter (1927-2007), Yiddish linguist
- Mordkhe Veynger (1890–1929), Soviet-Jewish linguist
Fictional characters
[edit]- Mottke the Thief, a 1915 novel and a 1917 play by Sholem Asch
- Motke the Angel of Death, a 1926 novel by Ilya Selvinsky
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles containing Motke
- All pages with titles containing Mottke
- All pages with titles containing Mordke
- All pages with titles containing Mordka
- All pages with titles containing Mordkhe
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