Moishe

This article is about the given name. For the American moving and storage company, see Moishe's Moving Systems. For the Canadian restaurant, see Moishes Steakhouse.

Moishe is a masculine given name, the Yiddish version of Moses. It may refer to:

Given name

  • Moishe Broderzon (1890–1956), Yiddish poet and theater director
  • Moishe Finkel (c. 1850–1904), Romanian-born American Yiddish theater actor and manager who attempted to kill his wife
  • Moishe Hurvitz (1844–1910), also known as Moses Horowitz, Austro-Hungarian-born American Yiddish theater playwright and actor
  • Moishe Levy, birth name of Morris Levy (1927–1990), American music industry entrepreneur, convicted extortionist and swindler
  • Moishe Lewis (1888–1950), Jewish labour activist
  • Moishe Lowtzky (1881–1940), Ukrainian–Polish chess master
  • Moishe Mana (born 1956), Israeli-born American businessman and real estate developer
  • Moishe Miller, birth name of Robert Merrill (1917–2004), American operatic baritone and actor
  • Moishe Oysher (1906–1958), American cantor, recording artist and actor
  • Moishe Postone (1942–2018), Canadian historian and social theorist
  • Moishe Rosen (1932–2010), American minister and founder of the organization Jews for Jesus
  • Moishe Segel, birth name of Marc Chagall (1887–1985), Russian and French artist
  • Moishe Tokar (fl. 1905–1910), Jewish anarchist who attempted to assassinate Russian general Sergei Gershelman
  • Moishe Zilberfarb (1876–1934), Ukrainian Jewish politician and activist

Pen name

  • Moishe or Moyshe Nadir, pen name of Yitzchak Rayz (1885–1943), Austro-Hungarian-born American Yiddish language writer and satirist
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