Message: "Re: Horowitz" - Behind the Name

Subject:	Re: Horowitz
Author:	Jim Young. (guest)
Date:	April 26, 2005 at 3:57 AM
Reply to:	Re: Horowitz by Sean Foglai

Horowitz is the German version of a Czech place-name, Horovice. The letter R has a mark over it in the Czech version to indicate that it is pronounced like R in Dvorak.
Re the Slavic G/H change; sometimes this name became Gurevitch in Russia, giving it the appearance of a patronymic.

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Horowitz - Sean Foglai Apr 24 2005, 12:33 PM

Re: Horowitz - Christo Apr 24 2005, 10:40 PM

Re: Horowitz - Sean Foglai Apr 25 2005, 9:32 AM

Re: Horowitz - Jim Young. Apr 26 2005, 3:57 AM

Re: Horowitz - Bethany Horowitz-Murphy May 1 2005, 4:54 PM

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