Levitas

Levitas is a surname of eastern ashkenazi origins, coming from a Greek form of Levy.[1] Notable people with the surname include:

  • Andrew Levitas (born 1977), American artist
  • Elliott H. Levitas (1930–2022), American politician and lawyer
  • Eugene Levitas (born 1972), Soviet-Israeli composer
  • Ilya Levitas (1931–2014), Soviet journalist and humanitarian figure
  • Irving Levitas (1910–1987), American Jewish scholar
  • Maurice Levitas (1917–2001), Irish academic and communist
  • Max Levitas (1915–2018), Irish communist activist
  • Ruth Levitas (born 1949), British sociologist
  • Sol Levitas (1894–1961), Russian-American socialist and magazine editor
  • Valery I. Levitas, Ukrainian material scientist

References

  1. ↑ Dictionary of American family names (Second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. ISBN 9780190245122.