Max Yankowitz (1875–1945) or Yenkovitz (Yiddish: מאַקס יאַנקאָװיטש) was a Romanian-born American Klezmer accordionist and recording artist.

[2] Although this side of his life is poorly documented, it is not surprising, as other Romanian-born klezmer musicians in New York including Joseph Moskowitz and Max Leibowitz also ran restaurants during this time.

He was buried in the Montefiore Cemetery in Queens in the section of the First Bucecer Independent Benevolent Association, a Landsmanshaft for immigrants from Buczacz.

[4][11] Max's wife was named Gisela (née Lazarowitz) and was born in Romania in around 1878; they seem to have been married around the time they emigrated in 1900.

[6] Beginning in the 1970s in the United States, there was renewed interest in old Jewish instrumental music which had fallen out of fashion for several decades—the Klezmer revival.