# Shlomo Zalman Horowitz (Taker) (b.1825) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN โ€” generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > ๐Ÿ”ต **Bernstein โ€” Ozzy's side** ยท Relationship to Ozzy: **4x great-grandfather** ![[I501437.jpg|220]] **Born** ~1825 โ€” [[Vilnius]] **Died** 11/08/1892 โ€” [[Beth Israel]] **Parents** [[Yudel Horowitz (b.1808)]] ยท [[Unknown (155)]] **Spouse** [[Chaya Sarah (b.1825)]] **Children** [[Necha Horowitz (b.1868)]] ยท [[Rivka Horowitz]] ยท [[Moshe Horowitz (d.1878)]] **๐Ÿ“ธ Media โ€” from MyHeritage** ![[I501437_1.jpg|180]] ![[I501437_2.jpg|180]] ![[I501437_3.jpg|180]] **Documents โ€” from MyHeritage:** [[I501437_doc0.pdf|๐Ÿ“„ Document 1]] *GEDCOM I501437 ยท Bernstein tree ยท synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Shlomo Zalman Horowitz โ€” recorded also under the byname **Taker (Saker)** โ€” was born about 1825 and came, as his gravestone says, "**of Vilna**": he belonged to the Lithuanian world of the *Perushim*, the disciples of the Vilna Gaon, and like many of them he ended his life in the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem.[^stone] He was a son of [[Yudel Horowitz (b.1808)]] โ€” "R. Yehuda ha-Levi" of the gravestone โ€” and the family were **Levites** bearing the honoured name **Horowitz**, which they traced to the **Shelah ha-Kadosh** (R. Isaiah Horowitz).[^stone][^shelah] He married [[Chaya Sarah (b.1825)]], and three of their children are recorded: [[Necha Horowitz (b.1868)]], [[Rivka Horowitz]] and [[Moshe Horowitz (d.1878)]].[^family] A "**Zalman Saker**" appears among the subscribers to *Sefer haDe'ot ve-haMidot* (by Jehiel Mahrich, 1865), a trace of the family's place in the learned world of the period.[^subscriber] In Jerusalem he is entered in the Beit Yisrael mukhtar's register.[^mukhtar] Shlomo Zalman died in Jerusalem on **18 Cheshvan 5653 (8 November 1892)** and is buried in the *Perushim* section on the Mount of Olives; his epitaph reads: "Here lies R. Shlomo Zalman, son of R. Yehuda ha-Levi, of Vilna, departed 18 Cheshvan 5653โ€ฆ Horowitz, of the lineage of the Shelah ha-Kadosh."[^stone] [^stone]: Gravestone (image on the profile; *Perushim* section, Mount of Olives โ€” "ื—ืœืงืช ืคืจื•ืฉื™ื, ื’ื•ืฉ ื™ืฉืŸ, ืฉื•ืจื” 33, ืงื‘ืจ 50"): "ืค"ื  ืจ' ืฉืœืžื” ื–ืœืžืŸ ื‘"ืจ ื™ื”ื•ื“ื ื”ืœื•ื™ ืžื•ื•ื™ืœื ื ื ืœื‘"ืข ื—"ื™ ื—ืฉื•ื•ืŸ ืชืจื "ื’ ืชื ืฆื‘"ื” ยท ื”ื•ืจื•ื‘ื™ืฅ ยท ืžื’ื–ืข ื”ืฉืœ"ื” ื”ืง" โ€” "Here lies R. Shlomo Zalman, son of R. Yehuda ha-Levi [= [[Yudel Horowitz (b.1808)]]], of Vilna, died 18 Cheshvan 5653 (8 Nov 1892)โ€ฆ Horowitz, of the lineage of the Shelah ha-Kadosh." Establishes his father (Yudel/Yehuda ha-Levi), his Vilna origin, the Levite (*ha-Levi*) descent, and the Horowitz/Shelah lineage. [^shelah]: "ืžื’ื–ืข ื”ืฉืœ"ื” ื”ืง'" โ€” of the lineage of the *Shelah ha-Kadosh* (R. Isaiah ha-Levi Horowitz). Consistent with the family's ha-Levi (Levite) descent. The family biography also raises a possible tie to R. Elazar Moshe Horowitz, rabbi of Pinsk in the same period ([he.wikipedia](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%A8_%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A5)) โ€” unproven. [^family]: Wife [[Chaya Sarah (b.1825)]]; children [[Necha Horowitz (b.1868)]], [[Rivka Horowitz]] and [[Moshe Horowitz (d.1878)]] (GEDCOM/MyHeritage). [^subscriber]: A "ื–ืœืžืŸ ืกืืงืขืจ" (Zalman Saker/Taker) listed among the subscribers (*prenumeranten*) to *Sefer haDe'ot ve-haMidot* by Jehiel Mahrich, 1865, p.39 ([Google Books](https://www.google.com/books/edition/%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%93%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%95%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA/Dug1AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA3-PT3)) โ€” the source of the "Taker/Saker" byname on this profile. [^mukhtar]: Jerusalem, Beit Yisrael neighbourhood, Mukhtar's Book 1883โ€“1901 (Film 13, No. 107, Register 62a) โ€” image on the profile. ## Research *(your reasoning โ€” preserved across every rebuild)* - **Gravestone (Perushim section, Mount of Olives) โ€” the anchor record.** "R. Shlomo Zalman b. R. Yehuda ha-Levi, of Vilna, d. 18 Cheshvan 5653 (8 Nov 1892), Horowitz, of the lineage of the Shelah ha-Kadosh." Confirms: father [[Yudel Horowitz (b.1808)]] (= Yehuda ha-Levi); Vilna origin; **Levite (ha-Levi)** descent; Horowitz/Shelah lineage; a Jerusalem Perushim Jew of the Old Yishuv. - **Byname "Taker/Saker":** from the 1865 *Sefer haDe'ot ve-haMidot* subscriber "Zalman Saker." - **Possible kinship** (unproven): to R. Elazar Moshe Horowitz of Pinsk (the family biography's suggestion, on the strength of a Pinsk connection). ## Evidence ## Open questions - **Read the gravestone and Beit Yisrael mukhtar-register images directly** and add to Evidence; confirm the "row 33, grave 50" plot. - **Shelah descent + Elazar Moshe Horowitz tie** โ€” the "ืžื’ื–ืข ื”ืฉืœ"ื”" claim and the possible Pinsk kinship are traditional/onomastic; document or leave flagged. - **Vilna vs Pinsk** โ€” the stone says "of Vilna," the biography raises Pinsk; his father [[Yudel Horowitz (b.1808)]]'s Vilna records are the place to reconcile this.