Motke, Mordkhe, or Mordka are Jewish given names, diminutives of

Mordechai Mordecai (; also Mordechai; , IPA: ) is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He is described as being the son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin. He was promoted to Vizier after Haman was killed. Biblical acco ...

. Notable people referred to as Motke include: * 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 Motke Chabad (Mordechai Chabad) (c.1820-c.1880) was a Jewish Lithuanian ('' litvak'') jester ('' badchen'') from Vilnius known from many Jewish jokes.Mendel Grossman Mordka Mendel Grossman was born on 27 June 1913 in Gorzkowice, Piotrków Governorate, Russian Empire (today Poland). He died on 30 April 1945, during the death marches. He was a photographer and worker in the Statistical Department of the Litzma ...

(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 Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter ( yi, איציע מרדכי שעכטער; December 1, 1927 – February 15, 2007) was a leading Yiddish linguist, writer, and educator who spent a lifetime studying, standardizing and teaching the language.Saxon, Wolfgang ...

(1927-2007), Yiddish linguist *

Mordkhe Veynger Mordkhe Veynger (russian: Мордхе Вейнгер; 1890–1929), more infrequently known as Mikhail Borisovich Veynger (russian: Михаил Борисович Вейнгер) was a Russian and Soviet linguist. An ethnic Jew, he specialised ...

(1890–1929), Soviet-Jewish linguist

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*''Motke the Thief'', a 1913 novel by Sholem Ash * ''Motke the Angel of Death'', a 1926 novel by Ilya Selvinsky

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