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February 14, 2025

The Matzah Queen of New York

The remarkable life of Regina Horowitz-Margareten.

One month from today it will be Purim, and by then Passover foods will be appearing in supermarkets. Of the variety of brands of matzah available, you might find Horowitz-Margareten. The company’s story began in Miskolc, Hungary, where Regina Horowitz (1863–1959) met and married Ignatz Margareten. The two left their native land for American in the 1880s, writes Yvette Alt Miller:

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