Roizl bas Yosef Fishels of Krakow (fl. 16th century) was a Polish Jewish printer and teacher.[1][2]
Her paternal grandfather Rabbi Yehuda ha-Levi ran a yeshiva for fifty years in Ludomir.[3] In 1586, she printed a translation of Tehillim into Yiddish by Moshe Stendel,[4] prefaced by an autobiographical poem of her own.[5]
References edit
- ^ Taitz, Emily; Henry, Sondra; Tallan, Cheryl (2003). The JPS Guide to Jewish Women: 600 B.C.E.–1900 C.E. A JPS Guide Series. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-8276-0752-1.
- ^ Taitz, Emily (2007). "Fishels, Roizl of Cracow". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 7 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. p. 61–62. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- ^ Zinberg, Israel (1975) [1929–1937]. Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period. A History of Jewish Literature. Translated by Martin, Bernard. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-87068-465-4.
- ^ Tallan, Cheryl; Taitz, Emily (2009). "Learned Women in Traditional Jewish Society". Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ Karpeles, Gustav (1895). Jewish Literature and Other Essays. Jewish Publication Society of America. p. 120.
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