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Horowitz ( Hebrew language|Hebrew : lang|he|????????? , Yiddish language|Yiddish : lang|yi|????????? ), also transcribed as Horovitz /Hurwitz/Gurvich/Gurevich, is a surname that has its origin in the Yiddish language|Yiddish name for the town of Horovice|Horovice in Bohemia , near Prague . The patriarch of the family line is thought to be Isayah Ha-Levi Ish Horowitz, who lived in Horovice|Horovice 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. http://www.horowitzassociation.org/ The Horowitz Families Association
List of people with the surname Horowitz
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Rabbis
Isaiah Horowitz , Czech-born German and Israeli rabbi, cabbalist, and author
Levi Yitzchak Horowitz , Bostoner Rebbe zt"l, 1921–2009
Mayer Alter Horowitz , Bostoner Rebbe of Yerushalayim, b. 1946
Naftali Yehuda Horowitz , Bostoner Rebbe of Boston,
Shabtai Horowitz , Volhynia-born Austrian Rabbi and Talmudist, son of the Isaiah
Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz , Rabbi and nephew of Isaiah Horowitz
Shmelke of Nikolsburg|Shmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburg , Poland-born Chief Rabbi of Moravia and kabbalist
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 Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin|Yankev Yitzchok fun Lublin (Horowitz)
Yidele Horowitz , Hasidic Rebbe of Dzikov
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.
