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54: 165: 106:, 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 74:. 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 85:
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
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on 21 June 1689 and 16 May 1754. The only gifts dedicated by Meisel and his wife to this synagogue that have been preserved are a curtain (
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Meisel went on to build quarters and provide housing for Jews who migrated from what is now modern-day
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in Prague, which is still standing and serves today as the headquarters of the
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the enthusiasm with which the Jewish population received the gift.
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16th-century businesspeople from the Holy Roman Empire
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