Bella Ḥazzan, née Horwitz, was an 18th-century Bohemian Yiddish writer.[1]
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.[2] In 1705 she published Geshikhte des hoyzes Dovid (Yiddish: געשיכטע דעס הויזעס דוד, lit. 'History of the Houses of David'). In conjunction with Rachel bat Nathan Porges (née Rausnitz), she edited a history, mostly legendary, of the Jews of Prague, entitled Eine shone geshikhte, zo izt geshehen, ehe nokh Yehudim tsu Prag gevohnt (Yiddish: איינע שאָנע געשיכטע, זאָ איזט געשעהען עהע נאך יהודים צו פראג געוואהנט, lit. 'One Beautiful Story').[3] She also wrote a teḥinah for the Ten Days of Repentance.[4]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Ziegler, Ignaz (1904). "Horwitz, Bella (called also Bella Ḥazzan)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 472.