KARASIK

Karasik, Karasick or Karassik is a Slavic-language surname literally meaning "little karas", i.e., "little crucian carp". It can be a metonymic occupational surname for a fisher, or a nickname for a person with face resembling carp. It can also be a Jewish artificial surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adeena Karasick, (born 1965), Canadian poet, performance artist, and essayist Elissa Karasik, American screenwriter Igor Karassik, Russian-American engineer Paul Karasik, American cartoonist Regina Karasick, birth name of Peggy Dennis (1909–1993), American–Russian journalist, author, and Communist activist Yuli Karasik, Soviet film director