Pasternak Jāzeps (Jasep) Hatzkelevich (1919 – 10 November 1975, Riga; exact birth date and place unknown) — Honoured Cultural Worker of the Latvian SSR; serviceman.

Jāzeps Pasternak participated in the Great Patriotic War from June 1941. He served as deputy commander and commander of a rifle battalion in the 43rd Guards Latvian Rifle Division and was wounded four times. For his combat service he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, and five medals.

He was demobilised in 1948. From 1948 to 1950, he worked as a controller in the Ministry of State Control of the Latvian SSR. In 1950–1953, he served as deputy battalion commander in units of the Baltic Military District.

From 1954, he worked in Riga in cultural administration: Deputy Director of the State Philharmonic of the Latvian SSR, Managing Director of the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Latvian SSR, Deputy Head of the Arts Affairs Administration, Head of the Department of Fine Art Museums and Monument Protection at the Ministry of Culture of the Latvian SSR.

He became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1965. From 1972, he served as Director of the Artistic Fund of the Latvian SSR.

He was recognised as a personal pensioner of republican significance. After his death, a pension of the same status was established for his younger daughter, Katrīne Pasternak.