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Horowitz (Hebrew: הוֹרוֹביץ, Yiddish: האָראָװיץ), also transcribed 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.
List of people with the surname Horowitz
Rabbis
Isaiah Horowitz, Czech-born German and Israeli rabbi, cabbalist, and authorLevi Yitzchak Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe zt"l, 1921–2009Mayer Alter Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe of Yerushalayim, b. 1946Naftali Yehuda Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe of Boston,Shabtai Horowitz, Volhynia-born Austrian Rabbi and Talmudist, son of the IsaiahShabtai Sheftel Horowitz, Rabbi and nephew of Isaiah HorowitzShmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburg, Poland-born Chief Rabbi of Moravia and kabbalistPinchas Horowitz, German rabbi and TalmudistRabbi 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)Yidele Horowitz, Hasidic Rebbe of Dzikov Others
Adam Horowitz (screenwriter), American TV show writerAdam Horowitz (journalist) - co-editor of MondoweissAlexandre Horowitz, Dutch technical engineer and inventorAnthony Horowitz, British author and television scriptwriterAriel HorowitzDaniel Horowitz, legal analyst and attorneyDavid Horowitz, formerly New Left but now conservative writer and social activist
also see David Horowitz (disambiguation)Donald Horowitz (disambiguation)Israel Horowitz, American chess masterJerome Horowitz, American scientistLeonard 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 playwrightNorman Horowitz, American geneticist and space biologistPaul Horowitz, U.S. physicist and electrical engineerRyszard Horowitz, Polish photographerScott J. Horowitz, American astronautShmuel Horowitz, Israeli agronomist.S. Horowitz & Co. (a law firm in Israel founded by the late Shalom Horowitz)Vladimir Horowitz, renowned classical pianistWayne Horowitz, archeologist...
