RE: [Cz-L] Jewish roots in Czernowitz

they have a group on yahoo!
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i am trying to find my family's connection...my great great great grandfath=
er was Mordechai Horwitz and he was from the Ostrog/Kinev area.
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> From: akogan_at_netvision.net.il
> To: alexanderrosner_at_yahoo.de=3B w.a.t-r_at_athenaeum.se=3B Czernowitz-L_at_corn=
ell.edu
> Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Jewish roots in Czernowitz
> Date: Tue=2C 14 Sep 2010 17:32:44 +0200
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> A propos Sephardic Jews.=20
> I happen to have a "Sephardic" wife=2C born in Krakow. My wife's maiden f=
amily
> name was Horowitz.=20
> After many years of research done by Horowitz'es and Gorowitz'es as well =
as
> Hurwitz'es and Gurwitz=2C Gurevitcz=2C it turned out that the ancestors o=
f all
> of then=2C including "Ish Halevy Horowitz"=2C came to Czechoslovakia from=
 Girona
> (Gerona=2C not far away from Barcelona). While on their way eastwards aft=
er
> the 1497 expulsion from Spain they decided to stop at a village called
> Horwice. They were very rich people and decided to buy the whole place an=
d
> to settle there. Later on=2C when at the order of the Austro-Hungarian
> Empire=2C everybody was supposed to adopt a "Family name" the decision wa=
s
> taken to register as Horowitz=2C Hurwitz=2C etc.
> Some eight or ten years ago=2C an international conference was organized =
at
> the Tel Aviv University by members of the Horowitz clan dispersed since t=
hen
> all over the world and researchers. A series of documents and research
> papers were presented and it was accepted that all of them are of Sephard=
ic
> origin. I think there is also a website of the International Association =
of
> thye Horowitz and Ish Halevy Horowitz descendants. I hope I'll find it an=
d
> provided it those interested.
> Regards=2C Abraham K.
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