Mordecai Marcus Meisel (Mordechaj Marek or Miška Marek Meisel(Majzel) in Czech : 1528, Prague - March 13, 1601, Prague) was the Philanthropist and communal leader at Prague; son of Samuel Meisel. Events June 19 - Battle of Landriano - A French army in Italy under Marshal St. ... Prague (Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... Events January 1 - Windows Win32 FILETIME epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. February 8 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England - revolt is quickly crushed February 25 - Robert Devereux beheaded Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrives in China Bad harvest in Russia due to rainy summer Dutch... Prague (Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... A philanthropist is someone who devotes his or her time, money, or effort towards helping others. ... Prague (Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ...

The persecution of the Jews of Prague by the fanatical Ferdinand I. occurred while Mordecai was a youth. In 1542 and 1561 his family, with the other Jewish inhabitants, was forced to leave the city, though only for a time. The source of the great wealth which subsequently enabled him to become the benefactor of his coreligionists and to aid the Austrian imperial house, especially during the Turkish wars, is unknown. He is mentioned in documents for the first time in 1569, as having business relations with the communal director Isaac Rofe (Lékarz), subsequently his father-in-law. His first wife, Eva, who died before 1580, built with him the Jewish town-hall at Prague, which is still standing, as well as the neighboring Hohe Synagoge, where the Jewish court sat. With his second wife, Frummet, he built (1590-92) the Meisel synagogue, which was much admired by the Jews of the time, being, next to the Altneusynagoge, the metropolitan synagogue of the city; it still bears his name. The costly golden and silver vessels with which he and his wife furnished this building either were lost during the lawsuit over his estate or were burned during the conflagrations in the ghetto in 1689 (June 21) and 1754 (May 16). The only gifts dedicated by Meisel and his wife to this synagogue that have been preserved are a curtain ("paroket") embroidered with hundreds of pearls, a similarly adorned wrapper for the scroll of the Law, and a magnificent bronze ornament for the almemar. Jacob Segre, rabbi of Casale-Monferrato, celebrated the dedication of the synagogue in a poem which is still extant, and his contemporary David Gans, the chronicler of Prague, has described in his "Tzemach Dawid" the enthusiasm with which the Jewish population received the gift. See: Ferdinand I of Castile and Leon, the Great (ca. ... Events War resumes between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. This time Henry VIII of England is allied to the Emperor, while James V of Scotland and Sultan Suleiman I are allied to the French. ... Events The Edict of Orleans suspends the persecution of the Huguenots. ... Events January 11 - First recorded lottery in England. ... Events March 1 - Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays. ... Events March 14 - Battle of Ivry - Henry IV of France again defeats the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne. ... A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ... Events Louis XIV of France passed the Code Noir, allowing the full use of slaves in the French colonies. ... June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... 1754 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ...

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This article incorporates text from the public domain 1901-1906 Jewish Encyclopedia. Please feel free to update it like any other article. Meisel refers to: Edmund Meisel, German composer John Meisel Marcus Mordecai Meisel Michael Meisel Mordecai Meisel Myron Meisel Steven Meisel Meisel synagogue*, Prague External link Meisel - JewishEncyclopedia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... The Jewish Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia originally published between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. ...