title: Shemitz (surname)
text: # Shemitz (surname)
  
  Shemitz is an uncommon surname in the United States of America.
  
  Four descendants of Benjamin Shemitz have Wikipedia pages:
  
  * Nathan Levine (1918–1972), American labor lawyer and witness in Hiss-Chambers case
  * Esther Shemitz (1900–1986), American painter and witness in Hiss-Chambers case
  * Reuben Shemitz (1894–1970), American attorney and witness in Hiss-Chambers case
  * Sylvan Shemitz (1925–2007), American electrical engineer, famed for lighting technologies
  
  (There is a cluster of people named Shemitz in and around Ohio, but they are not related to the New York City / New Haven Shemitz Family.)
  
  