Morgentaler is a

family name In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

(or

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

) of Jewish families from Poland.

Origin

The family name Morgentaler developed among Ashkenazi Jews in Europe.

Distribution

Until World War II in Poland, mainly in Łódź. The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names enlists many Jewish Morgentaler victims of the Holocaust. Few Polish Morgentalers survived and emigrated. Today's spreading is relatively high in Canada and Serbia."World Family Names"
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People

* Dr. Henry Morgentaler (1923–2013, Łódź), Canadian physician and abortion activist ** '' Morgentaler v. The Queen'', 1976 Supreme Court of Canada decision ** ''

R. v. Morgentaler ''R v Morgentaler'', 9881 SCR 30 was a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada which held that the abortion provision in the ''Criminal Code'' was unconstitutional because it violated women's rights under section 7 of the ''Canadian Charter of R ...

'' (1988), Supreme Court of Canada decision ** ''

'' (1993), Supreme Court of Canada decision *

Goldie Morgentaler Goldie Morgentaler (born 1950) is a Canadian Yiddish-to-English literary translator as well as a professor of English literature. She currently holds a professorship at the University of Lethbridge, where she teaches nineteenth-century British and ...

(born 1950), Yiddish author

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