Bella Horwitz

Bella Ḥazzan, née Horwitz, was an 18th-century Bohemian Yiddish writer.

[1] She was the daughter of the martyr Be'er ben Hezekiah ha-Levi Horwitz and wife of Joseph ben Ḥayyim Ḥazzan, who died in Prague in 1713.

[2] In 1705 she published Geshikhte des hoyzes Dovid (Yiddish: געשיכטע דעס הויזעס דוד, lit.

In conjunction with Rachel bat Nathan Porges (née Rausnitz), she edited a history, mostly legendary, of the Jews of Prague, entitled Eine shone geshikhte, zo izt geshehen, ehe nokh Yehudim tsu Prag gevohnt (Yiddish: איינע שאָנע געשיכטע, זאָ איזט געשעהען עהע נאך יהודים צו פראג געוואהנט, lit.

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