Meyerowitz (Polish: Majerowicz) is a

Yiddish Yiddish, historically Judeo-German, is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated in 9th-century Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with ...

-language surname. It is a

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 A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based o ...

literally meaning "descendant of Meyer" (Polish phonetic transcription: ''Majer''), derived with the Polish-language patronymic suffix ''-wicz''. It can be transcribed via Russian language as Meyerovich. The surname may refer to: * Elliot Meyerowitz (born 1951), U.S. biologist * Herbert Vladimir Meyerowitz (1900–1945), British artist * Jan Meyerowitz (1913–1998), German-American composer *

Joel Meyerowitz Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938) is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the ide ...

(born 1938), U.S. photographer * Rick Meyerowitz (born 1943), U.S. artist

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