Roizl Fishels

Polish Jewish printer and teacher
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IntroPolish Jewish printer and teacher
PlacesPoland
isTeacher Printer
Gender
Female
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Biography

Roizl bas Yosef Fishels of Krakow (fl. 16th century) was a Polish Jewish printer and teacher.

Her paternal grandfather Rabbi Yehuda ha-Levi ran a yeshiva for fifty years in Ludomir. In 1586, she printed a translation of Tehillim into Yiddish by Moshe Stendel, prefaced by an autobiographical poem of her own.

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