Meisel family Rabbinic dynasty
The Maisel Synagogue , built by Mordecai Meisel in 1590. The Meisel family (also Meisels and Meizels ) is a distinguished Bohemian rabbinic family originally from Prague , who descend from Yitskhak Eizik Meisels (b. 1425), a paternal 10th generation descendant of the Exilarch , Mar Ukba .[ 1] Mordecai Meisel achieved great economic prominence in Prague , becoming one of the wealthiest Bohemian Jewish families. It was also during this time that a branch of the family descending from Simcha Bunim Meisels (1545-1624) (the son-in-law of Moses Isserles ) immigrated to Kraków , Poland due to rising Antisemitism in Bohemia. In Poland the family produced several rabbinic scholars, such as Dow Ber Meisels and Moses Bonems-Meisels .[ 2] [ 3] Shabbatai HaKohen , Yitzchak Yaacov Reines , Alexander Sender Shor , John von Neumann ,[ 4] Peshischa , Sulitza , Ropshitz , Bobov , Biala , Kretshnif , and Kotzk Hasidic dynasties .[ 1]
