HOROWITZ, ABRAHAM BEN ISAIAH
- HOROWITZ, ABRAHAM BEN ISAIAH
- HOROWITZ, ABRAHAM BEN ISAIAH (1671–1744), Polish rabbi.
Horowitz, born in Leipnik, Moravia, studied under his father,
isaiah b. shabbetai sheftel horowitz . He assisted his father in
his activities and accompanied him at the sessions of the Council of the
Four Lands. Horowitz served as dayyan in Posen and in 1699
pleaded before the council in Jaroslav, Poland, against "the leaders of
the Posen community" in connection with the community's payment of a
promissory note left him by his father. The hardship prevailing in
Poland in 1697–1704 as a result of war compelled Horowitz to emigrate.
He reached Amsterdam, where he published the prayer book with the
commentary Sha'ar ha-Shamayim (1717) of his great-grandfather
with additions of his grandfather Shabbetai Sheftel and with his own
additions. In the introduction Horowitz notes: "I was driven from one
exile to another… the pursuers caught up with me, armies and troops with
the sword of war… and I was left penniless." In 1728 he published the
novellae of yom tov b. abraham ishbili (the Ritba) to various
tractates of the Talmud, with the novellae of his own father, and
published a new edition (1729) of Emek Berakhah by
abraham b. shabbetai sheftel horowitz with his father's additions.
Subsequently he wandered in Poland and Germany, and died in Frankfurt on
the Oder. His son, ZE'EV WOLF HA-LEVI (d. 1777), was a
member of the famous altona Klaus. Out of humility he
refused to accept the office of dayyan there.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Perles, in: MGWJ, 14 (1865), 92 n. 23; E. Duckesz,
Chachme AHW (1908), Germ. pt. 27, Heb. pt. 77; H.D.
Friedberg, Toledot Mishpaḥat Horowitz (19282), 30;
Z. (H.) Horowitz, Toledot Mishpaḥat Horowitz (1936), 30;
Halpern, Pinkas, 244.
(Yehoshua Horowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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