Motke, Mordkhe, or Mordka are Jewish given names, diminutives of Mordechai. 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
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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 (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
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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
Fictional characters
*''Motke the Thief'', a 1913 novel by Sholem Ash
* ''Motke the Angel of Death'', a 1926 novel by Ilya Selvinsky