Yankel, Yankele, Yankl, Jankiel, Jankel is a Jewish given name. It is a Yiddish diminutive ( yi, יאַנקל) of

Jacob Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. J ...

. It is also used as a surname.

Yankelevich Yankelevich is a Russian-language patronymic surname derived from the Yiddish given name Yankel. Polish-language version is Jankieliewicz. *Jaime Yankelevich *Omer Yankelevich * Romina Yankelevich * Tomás Yankelevich *Yuri Yankelevich Other tra ...

is a Russian-language

patronymic surname A patronymic surname is a surname originated from the given name of the father or a patrilineal ancestor. Different cultures have different ways of producing patronymic surnames. For example, early patronymic Welsh surnames were the result of th ...

derived from the name. Other derived surnames include Janklow, Yankelova, Jankelowitz. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

* Jankel Adler *

Yankel Feather Yankel Feather (21 June 1920 – 18 April 2009) was a British painter, and a member of the Liverpool Academy of Arts and the Newlyn Society of Artists. Paintings by Feather are in the public collections of the Royal Pavilion and the Walker Ar ...

(1920-2009), British painter *

Yankele Hershkowitz Yankele Hershkowitz was a street singer during the Holocaust in the Łódź Ghetto The Łódź Ghetto or Litzmannstadt Ghetto (after the Nazi German name for Łódź) was a Nazi ghetto established by the German authorities for Polish Jews and R ...

* (1869-1940) Jewish Belarusian painter *Iankel-Meïer Nokhim-Aronovich Milkin or (1877-1944), Jewish Russian and French painter *Yankel Rosenthal, the namesake of the

Estadio Yankel Rosenthal Estadio Yankel Rosenthal is a multi-purpose use stadium in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Renovations were completed in 2009, and it will now be used primarily for football matches. It is the home stadium of San Pedro Sula-based Marathón, the seco ...

, Honduras * Yankel Talmud (1885-1965_, Hasidic composer * Jankiel Wiernik (1889-1972), Holocaust survivor * (1905-1938), Jewish Moldavian writer and poet *Yankel was the birth name of

Yakov Yurovsky Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky (; Unless otherwise noted, all dates used in this article are of the Gregorian Calendar, as opposed to the Julian Calendar which was used in Russia prior to . – 2 August 1938) was a Russian Old Bolshevik, revo ...

(1878-1938), Jewish Russian revolutionary, best known for the assassination of the family of Tsar Nicholas II *

Yankel Zhuravitzer Yaakov Zechariah Maskalik, known publicly as Reb Yankel Zhuravitzer (1897–1938) was a rabbi and underground Chabad-Lubavitch activist in the Soviet Union in the early years of the Joseph Stalin regime. In defiance of the Soviet authorities, Mask ...

(1897–1938), rabbi and underground Chabad-Lubavitch activist in the Soviet Union

Surname

Annabel Jankel Annabel Jankel (born 1 June 1955), also known as AJ Jankel, is a British film and TV director who first came to prominence as a music video director and the co-creator of the pioneering cyber-character Max Headroom and as co-director of the film ...

* Chaz Jankel *

Jacques Yankel Jacques Yankel, born Jakob Kikoïne (14 April 1920 – 2 April 2020) was a French painter, sculptor, and lithographer. Biography Five years after his sister, Claire, Yankel was born at the Boucicaut Hospital in Paris. His parents were Michel Kiko ...

Jennifer Jankel Jennifer Anne Jankel (born May 1940) is a retired British businesswoman and, since 2011, chair of the Jewish Music Institute in London. The daughter of bandleader Joe Loss and his wife Mildred, she was educated in London at St Paul's Girls' Scho ...

Lewis Shay Jankel Lewis Shay Jankel (born 27 May 1993), better known by his stage name Shift K3Y (pronounced "shift key"), is a British DJ, record producer, singer and songwriter, from London. He is best known for his 2014 singles "Touch", which peaked at number ...

Robert Jankel Robert Jankel (1 January 1938 – 25 May 2005) was a British designer of limousines, armoured cars, and other speciality vehicles. He also founded the automotive company Panther Westwinds. Early life Born in London in 1938, Jankel was educat ...

Fictional characters

* (also translated as Yankel), fictional tavernkeeper and musician in epic poem ''

Pan Tadeusz ''Pan Tadeusz'' (full title: ''Mister Thaddeus, or the Last Foray in Lithuania: A Nobility's Tale of the Years 1811–1812, in Twelve Books of Verse'') is an epic poem by the Polish poet, writer, translator and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz. The b ...

'' by Adam Mickiewicz *Yankele ben Itzhok, the sidekick of

The King of Schnorrers The King of Schnorrers is Israel Zangwill's 1894 picaresque novel,Milton Hindus,The King of Schnorrers, by Israel Zangwill, ''Commentary'', March 1954 a collection of amusing tragicomic episodes of '' schnorring'' by "Manasseh Bueno Barzillai Azeve ...

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