Muskat E. (04.08.1877, Vilnius) – public figure.

  E. Muskat received secondary education in Vilnius. In 1900, he enrolled at the Riga Polytechnic Institute. After graduating, he studied for another two and a half years at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Königsberg. From 1915, he lived in Moscow, where he had a large business. In 1921, he moved to Riga. For many years, he was active in the Ahdot society. He was a member of the board of the Intelehants Bank and the Latvian Economic Society. He wrote extensively in Hebrew and Yiddish and was often published in Hatzfira. He was an employee of the Riga Russian newspaper Riga Thought. He was a member of Keren Hayesod and vice-chairman of the society in Latvia. At the second Jewish Congress in Basel in August 1930, he was elected representative of Latvian Jewry and member of the agency's administrative committee.