Levitzki or Levitsky ( ''Łevyćkyj'', ''Levickij'', , ) is a surname, which is derived from the Hebrew name

Levi Levi ( ; ) was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's third son), and the founder of the Israelites, Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the Kohanim) and the great-grandfather of Aaron ...

meaning "joined to" in Hebrew.MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Levi
/ref> Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Levitzki (born 1940), Israeli biochemist *

Jacob Levitzki Jakob Levitzki, also known as Yaakov Levitsky (; 17 August 1904 – 25 February 1956), was an Israeli mathematician. Biography Levitzki was born in 1904 in the Ukrainian city, Kherson, then part of the Russian Empire. In 1912 he emigrated to the ...

(1904–1956), Jewish Ukrainian-Israeli mathematician * Mischa Levitzki (1898–1941), Jewish Ukrainian-American concert pianist It can also refer to: * Levitzki radical * Levitzky's theorem * Hopkins–Levitzki theorem

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