Hurwitz/Horowitz family history
I am glad to inform that the English version of my book "Gurevich, Gurovich, Gurvich, Gorvich, Gurvitz, Horowitz and others. The History of a Great Family", published previously in Russian (Haifa, 1999, ISBN 965-222-971-7, copyright: Shlomo Gurevich*) is now available. The book containsthe history of this famous Jewish family, as well as the genealogy of many of its sons from medieval Spain through Bohemia, Poland, Germany and Austria to Russia, Israel and USA.It also contains 147 biographies of outstanding representatives of this family who were famous rabbis, scholars, artists, scientists, engineers, musicians, soldiers, writers, revolutionaries, secret service agents, Zionists, Heroes of the Soviet Union, and among them Rabbi Zerachyah Ha-Levi from Gerona, the Holy SheLaH, M. Gurevich (aircraft designer), V. Horowitz, Karl Marx, F. Dan, N. Zarkhi, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau. The book will prove of interest to the bearers of these surnames and other descendants of the Horowitz family as well as to a more general reader interested in Jewish history and Judaism from the Middle Ages to contemporary times.It contains an extensive bibliography, statistics and helpful information for those engaged in genealogy research and search for relatives. The book is about 130 pages in length with appendices.
Mine is the first book in English on this subject which relates the Horowitz family history in considerable detail, provides an extensive graphical Horowitz family tree covering the early stages of the family's history, as well as biographies of its outstanding representatives - all in a single volume. Some of them belonged to the Russian branch of the family which during the 70 years of Soviet regime was isolated from its Western counterparts and for that reason scarcely known to it. The Russian version of the book has been well received both by professionals in the field and more general readers. The following are some typical references:
Yehudit Agracheva, Journalist ("Vesti" Israeli Russian newspaper): "Very interesting book"
Moshe Goncharok, Historian (Jerusalem): "Good work"
Chaim Horovitz, Biochemist (Rechovot): "Wonderful work"
B. Gidalevich (Qiryat Shmuel): "Pioneering research"
Menachem Argov, Dr. Menashe Horowitz (The Horowitz Families Association, Tel Aviv): "Thorough research of theHorowitz family history"
Ilya Gurevich (Sacramento, CA): "You've changed my life"
The first reference to the English version:
Stephanie Horowitz, Publishing Manager (Binghampton, NY): "Fascinating book"
Judith Wolkovitch, the Horowitz Families Association of Diaspora (Rolling Hills Estates, CA): "Congratulations on a fine effort"
Nachum Tuchman (Tekoa, Israel): "Very informative"
Shlomo Gurevich,
Russian-speaking representative of the Horowitz Families Association,
Israel
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