Litwak Family History
Litwak Name Meaning
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from Yiddish litvak Polish Litwak ‘Lithuanian’ denoting a Jew who spoke the northeastern dialect of Yiddish i.e. someone from the historical Grand Duchy of Lithuania (a region much larger than present-day Lithuania for it included Belarus parts of northeastern Poland parts of northern Ukraine and Latvia).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022