Mazel

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Mazel or Maazel (מזל mazel or mazal 'happiness') is the Jewish family name of the following people:

  • Ilja Mazel (also Ruwim Mazel, 1890–1967), Soviet painter
  • Isaak Mazel (1911–1945), Soviet chess master
  • Jean Mazel (1910–1962), French politician
  • Judy Mazel (1943-2007), American nutritionist ("The Beverly Hills Diet")
  • Leo Mazel (1907–2000), Soviet-Russian musicologist
  • Olivier Mazel (1858–1940), French general in the First World War
  • Zvi Mazel (* 1939), Israeli diplomat
  • Lorin Maazel (1930–2014), American conductor and composer

Mazel is also the pseudonym of: