The Altschuler family was a prominent Jewish family originating in Prague in the 16th century.
There are two descent lines from the Altschuler family to the Reis family. One through Schprinze / Schripinza / Shprinze (Eberles) Altschuler as follows:
Avraham Avir Altschuler (Eberles) == N. N. >> Rabbi Moshe Gershon Altschuler == Chana Treves / Treivisch ( – 1559) >> Schprinze / Schripinza / Shprinze (Eberles) Altschuler == Yosef HaCohen Katz, She’erit Yosef of Cracow >> Rivka Katz == Mordecai Yechiel Schrentzel (ca. 1560 – 1616) >> Gittel Fishelis Schrentzel (ca. 1600 – 1652) == Rabbi Ephraim Fischel, [of Lvov] ABD Lukow (ca 1570 – 1653) >> Yehudit (Jute) Leib Saba == Rabbi Arye-Leib Fishles / Fishls Kalusziner / Kloisner, (ca. 1620 – 1671) >> Pearl Aryeh Leib Kloisner (ca. 1666 – 1722) == Ezekiel Joshua (Yechezkia / Yehoshua) Feivel Teomim (ca. 1637 – ca. 1726) == Pearl Leib (1640 – 1710) >> Chaim Jonah Frankel-Teomim == Sarah Oppenheim >> Magdalene Genendel Frankel-Teomim (1713 – 1778) == Simon Isaac Bondi (1711 – 1773) >> Jonas Bondi (1732 – 1765) == Bella / Belle Schifra >> Clara / Caroline Bondi (1760-1829) == Koppel Loeb of Bamberg >> Moises Loeb / Moritz Reis (1782 – 1855) == Émilie Bickartt (1784 ) >> Jonas Reis (1809 – 1877) == Marian Samuel (1825 – 1900) >>The Reis Family
The second Altschuler to Reis descent runs from Rabbi Yakov Eberles Altschuler as follows:
Avraham Avir Altschuler (Eberles) == N. N. >> Rabbi Moshe Gershon Altschuler >> Chana Treves / Treivisch ( – 1559) >> Rabbi Yakov Eberles Altschuler (1538 – ) == Gittel Landau died 1596 (daughter of Moshe Hazoken HaLevi Landau) >> Rosa / Royzu Eberles == Rabbi Nachman Schrentzel >> Eliezer Lipmann Schrentzel (- 1558) == Dreizel Miriam Zeisel Luria ( ca. 1446 – 1559) >> Dinah Malka / Malka Dina Schrentzel (ca. 1500 – ) == Rabbi Israel ben Joseph Yosef ben Chaim Isserles / Israel Isserlein (ca. 1490 – 1568) >> Kendel Isserles == David Luria Drucker Rapaport >> Deborah Rivkah Luria Drucker (1545 – 1617) == Shaul Wahl Katzenellenbogen (ca. 1541 – 1616) >> Meir Moshe Wahl Katzenellenbogen (ca. 1565 – ca. 1630) == Hinda Halevi Horowitz == Meir Moshe Wahl Katzenellenbogen (ca. 1565 – ca. 1630) >> Baila / Beila Katzenellenbogen == Jonah / Yonah I Frankel-Teomim (1596 – 1669) >> Ezekiel Joshua Feivel Teomim (ca. 1637 – ca. 1726) == Pearl Leib (1640 – 1710) >> Chaim Jonah Frankel-Teomim == Sarah Oppenheim >> Magdalene Genendel Frankel-Teomim (1713 – 1778) == Simon Isaac Bondi (1711 – 1773) >> Jonas Bondi (1732 – 1765) == Bella / Belle Schifra >> Clara / Caroline Bondi (1760-1829) == Koppel Loeb of Bamberg >> Moises Loeb / Moritz Reis (1782 – 1855) == Émilie Bickartt (1784 ) >> Jonas Reis (1809 – 1877) == Marian Samuel (1825 – 1900) >> REIS FAMILY
It would appear that Krendel Altschuler, a daughter of Rabbi Moshe Gershon Altschuler, and the first wife of Rabbi Moshe Isserles, died in the plague epidemic that hit Kraków in 1552.
All records show that the original seat of this family was Prague, the capital of Bohemia; and the transcription of the name is often in two separate words derived from the Alt’-Schul’ or Old Synagogue. This synagogue no longer exists at Prague and is not to be confused with the Altneuschul which does.
The name Altschul is supposed to have been first borne by a descendant of Provençal refugees who had settled in Prague about 1302. Prague, besides being the place of origin, was also the chief seat for several centuries of the Altschul or Altschuler family. But after the expulsion of the Jews from that city in 1542, many of the Altschuls who found an asylum in other countries did not return; and so, from the sixteenth century on, we find them prominent in what is now Poland, Lithuania, and Russia as well as in Italy. The Altschuler family sometimes adopted the name Eberles as an additional surname used by some members in Prague in the 15th-16th centuries.
The Spanish Synagogue in Prague is not the first synagogue at the site. Before it there stood probably the oldest synagogue in Prague Jewish Town, the Altschule. In the second half of 19th century, the capacity of the Altschule did not suffice. The modernist faction in the community, which renovated it in 1837 for the purpose of moderately reformed services, therefore decided to demolish the synagogue in 1867 and one year later it was replaced by the new, Spanish Synagogue. Its name presumably refers to the style in which it was built.
