Horowitz
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Horowitz (Hebrew: הוֹרוֹביץ, Yiddish: האָראָװיץ), also transcripted as Horovitz/Hurwitz/Gurvich/Gurevich, is a surname that has its origin in the Yiddish name for the town of Hořovice in Bohemia, near Prague. The patriarch of the family line is thought to be Isayah Ha-Levi Ish Horowitz, who lived in Hořovice in the 16th century and had eight sons who spread the family throughout Europe, which later spread to the Middle East, Russia and the Americas. Today there are some 50,000 people around the world, mostly of Levite and Jewish ancestry, carrying a variation of the Horowitz surname.[1]
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[edit] List of people with the surname Horowitz
[edit] Rabbis
- Isaiah Horowitz, Czech-born German and Israeli rabbi, cabbalist, and author
- Shabtai Horowitz, Volhynia-born Austrian Rabbi and Talmudist, son of the Isaiah
- Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz, Rabbi and nephew of Isaiah Horowitz
- Pinchas Horowitz, German rabbi and Talmudist
- Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Horowitz, one of North America’s foremost experts on the intricate art of kosher food production and a key part of Manischewitz.
- Rebbe Yankev Yitzchok fun Lublin (Horowitz)
- Shmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburg, Poland-born Chief Rabbi of Moravia and cabalist
- Yidele Horowitz, Hasidic Rebbe of Dzikov
[edit] Others
- Adam Horowitz (screenwriter), American TV show writer
- Adam Horowitz (journalist) - co-editor of Mondoweiss
- Alexandre Horowitz, Dutch technical engineer and inventor
- Anthony Horowitz, British author and television scriptwriter
- Ariel Horowitz
- Daniel Horowitz, legal analyst and attorney
- David Horowitz, formerly New Left but now conservative writer and social activist
- also see David Horowitz (disambiguation)
- Donald Horowitz (disambiguation)
- Israel Horowitz, American chess master
- Jerome Horowitz, American scientist
- Leonard Horowitz, American conspiracy theorist, dentist and writer.
- Michael Horowitz, American author, husband of writer Cynthia Palmer and father of actress Winona Ryder.
- Moses Yitzchaq ha-Levi Horowitz, Yiddish playwright
- Norman Horowitz, American geneticist and space biologist
- Paul Horowitz, U.S. physicist and electrical engineer
- Ryszard Horowitz, Polish photographer
- Scott J. Horowitz, American astronaut
- Shmuel Horowitz, Israeli agronomist.
- S. Horowitz & Co. (a law firm in Israel founded by the late Shalom Horowitz)
- Vladimir Horowitz, renowned classical pianist
- Wayne Horowitz, archeologist...
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