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writer. She was the daughter of the

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Be'er ben Hezekiah ha-Levi Horwitz and wife of Joseph ben Ḥayyim Ḥazzan, who died in

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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

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