Yankel Explained

Yankel, Yankele, Yankl, Jankiel, Jankel is a Jewish given name. It is a Yiddish diminutive (Yiddish: יאַנקל) of Jacob. It is also used as a surname.

Yankelevich is a Russian-language patronymic surname derived from the name. Other derived surnames include Janklow, Yankelova, Jankelowitz.

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Jankel Adler
• Yankel Feather (1920-2009), British painter
• Yankele Hershkowitz
• (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, 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 (1878-1938), Jewish Russian revolutionary, best known for the assassination of the family of Tsar Nicholas II
• Yankel Zhuravitzer (1897–1938), rabbi and underground Chabad-Lubavitch activist in the Soviet Union

Surname

• Annabel Jankel
• Chaz Jankel
• Jacques Yankel
• Jennifer Jankel
• Lewis Shay Jankel
• Robert Jankel

Fictional characters

• (also translated as Yankel), fictional tavernkeeper and musician in epic poem Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
• Yankele ben Itzhok, the sidekick of The King of Schnorrers