What is "garfinkel"

Garfinkel is a Yiddish surname with variants Garfinkle, Garfinckel, Gurfinkel, Gorfinkel etc. Notable people with the surname include:

• Charles B. Garfinkel (1890–1969), New York assemblyman
• Harold Garfinkel, sociologist
• Jack Garfinkel (1918–2013), American basketball player
• Simson Garfinkel, journalist and writer specializing in the field of computer security
• Yosef Garfinkel, Israeli archaeologist