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HOROWITZ (הורװיץ)

Jesaja HOROWITZ (Asher {Josef} & Mindel {Meshulam}) Rivka ( -1515) (Jomtov)	Aron Meshulam ( -1545) Ester (Israel {Pinchas})	Israel, Lipman, Jesaja, Moses, Eva
	Josef ( -1616) Edl	Isak
	Sheftel ( -1555) Jocheved (Akiba)	Akiba, Abraham, Jesaja, Rivka, Mindl, Hendl
	Meir Brauna (Moses)	Israel
	Pinchas ( -1515)
	Seligman Rehl	Pinchas, Lasar, Michla
	Hendel Moses	Salomon

Josef had children: Asher Seligman, Israel, and Juda.

Asher Seligman "Zalman HORZOWSKY"¹ married Mindel, daughter of Rabbi Meshulam, and had children: Jesaja, Meir, Israel, Jakob, Hendel, and Sara. Mindel died around 1490 and, by 1492, Asher had married Zlatke, a divorcee. Asher died around 1505.

Jesaja HOROWITZ "MUNK" lived in Prague, married Rivka, daughter of Jomtov, and had children: Aron Meshulam, Josef, Sheftel, Meir, Pinchas, Seligman, and Hendel. Rivka died as a widow in 1515.

Aron Meshulam HOROWITZ "Zalman MUNK" married Ester, daughter of Israel, son of Pinchas. He then married Nechama, daughter of Menachem son of Moses, and had children: Israel, Lipman, Jesaja, Moses, and Eva. Zalman died in Prague in 1545.

Israel HOROWITZ "MUNK" married Nisel Reisel "Ursula" and had children: Jona, Jesaja, Samuel, Pinchas, Mandl, Litman, Zalman, Rivka, Ester, Rosa, Nechama, and Sara. Israel died in Prague in 1572.

Pinchas HOROWITZ was a rabbi in Cracow and married Miriam Beile, daughter of Rabbi Moses Isserles "Rema" (רמ״א). Pinchas died in 1618.
Rivka HOROWITZ "STERN" married Moses Aron TEOMIM and had children: Meshulam Zalman, Samuel Phöbus, Jakob, Jesaja, Gitel, Edel, Kele, Esther, and Nechle.

Eva HOROWITZ received protection status in Prague in 1577.

Josef HOROWITZ married Edl "Elischka" and had a son, Isak.
Shabtai "Sheftel" HOROWITZ, lived in Prague, married Jocheved "Juchomet", daughter of Akiba haKohen from Ofen, and had children: Akiba, Abraham, Jesaja, Rivka, Mindl, and Hendl. Sheftel died in about 1555.

Abraham HOROWITZ had a son, Jesaja "Shelah" (של״ה) (who had a son, Shabtai "Sheftel").

Meir HOROWITZ married Brauna "Pruna", daughter of Moses Pik, and had a son, Israel.
Pinchas HOROWITZ died young in about 1515.
Seligman "Štastný" HOROWITZ married Rehl "Regina" and had children: Pinchas, Lasar, and Michla.
Hendl HOROWITZ married Moses and had a son, Salomon.

Meir HOROWITZ married Schöndel, daughter of Israel Pinchas, and had children: Stastny, Salamon, Israel, Flekl (Hoschek), David, and Zlotka (Süßl).
Israel HOROWITZ had a son, Jehuda.
Jakob HOROWITZ, a doctor, married Frokynt.
Hendel HOROWITZ marred Meir and had children: Jehoshua (Hoschek), Czerl (Sara), and Gitl (possibly daughter-in-law instead).
Sarah HOROWITZ married Chanoch "Enoch", son of Menachem.

Israel HORZOWSKY had children: Jesaja, Jona, Jakob, and Ester. He died on or before 1485.

Jakob HOROWITZ married Gitka.
Ester HOROWITZ married Salomon, grandson of Jakob von Welwary, and had children: Israel, Jakob, and Deschka. She then married Tobias.

Juda HORZOWSKY "HOROWITZ" married Zippora, daughter of Itzhak, and had children: Jesaja, Josef, Hanna, and Rosl. Juda was killed around 1539 and Zippora apparently died around the same time.

Jesaja "Merls" HOROWITZ married Mirl and had children: Jehuda, Israel, Isak, Stastny, Zippora, Rosa, Jutl, Matrona, and Freudel.
Josef HOROWITZ married Debora "Dorota" and had children: Jehuda, Moses, Jechiel, Isak, Abraham, Zippora, Rivka, Samuel, Dubra, Schöndel, Rachel, Jentl, Pacova, and Rosa.

Research Notes

1. In Prague council records of the late 1400s/early 1500s, the surname appears as Horzowsky (in Latin) and Hořovský (in Czech), signifying origin from Hořovice in Bohemia.

2. Muneles, Otto. Zur Prosopographie der Prager Juden im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Judaica Bohemaie. Vol. II. 1966. p. 64-96