Bella Horwitz


Bella Ḥazzan,, was an 18th-century Bohemian Yiddish writer.
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. In 1705 she published Geshikhte des hoyzes Dovid. In conjunction with Rachel bat Nathan Porges, she edited a history, mostly legendary, of the Jews of Prague, entitled Eine shone geshikhte, zo izt geshehen, ehe nokh Yehudim tsu Prag gevohnt. She also wrote a teḥinah for the Ten Days of Repentance.