{{Short description|Rabbinic dynasty}} [[File:Maisel Synagogue after the Last Reconstruction.jpg|thumb|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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Meizels family tree|url=https://www.davidicdynasty.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/meizels.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Davidicdynasty.org}}</ref> From the early 16th century and onward, members of the family such as 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Mirkes|url=https://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rkimble/Mirweb/RabbiMirkes.html#1|access-date=2020-08-25|website=darkwing.uoregon.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=MEISEL - JewishEncyclopedia.com|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10589-meisel|access-date=2020-08-26|website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref> Among the families descendants are: Shabbatai HaKohen, Yitzchak Yaacov Reines, Alexander Sender Shor, John von Neumann,<ref>{{cite book |last=Macrae |first=Norman |author-link=Norman Macrae |title=John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More|year=1992|publisher=Pantheon Press |isbn=978-0-679-41308-0|page=39}}</ref> as well as the Peshischa, Sulitza, Ropshitz, Bobov, Biala, Kretshnif, and Kotzk Hasidic dynasties.<ref name=":0" />
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Category:Rabbinic dynasties Category:Davidic line Category:Czech families Category:Polish families
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