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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The name Altschul is supposed to have been first borne by a descendant of Proven\u00e7al refugees who had settled in Prague in 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nA second possible descent line from Altschuler to Reis is as follows. However this is not well supported and should be treated skeptically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Avraham Avir Altschuler (Eberles) == N. N. >> Rabbi Moshe Gershon Altschuler >> Chana Treves \/ Treivisch ( \u2013 1559) >> Rabbi Yakov Eberles Altschuler (1538 \u2013 ) == Gittel Rapaport (the daughter of Rabbi Aryeh Leib HaKohen Rapaport) >> Rosa \/ Royzu Eberles == Rabbi Nachman Schrentzel<\/a> >> Eliezer Lipmann Schrentzel (- 1558) == Dreizel Miriam Zeisel Luria<\/a> ( ca. 1446 \u2013 1559) >> Dinah Malka \/ Malka Dina Schrentzel (ca. 1500 \u2013 ) == Rabbi Israel ben Joseph Yosef ben Chaim Isserles \/ Israel Isserlein <\/a>(ca. 1490 \u2013 1568) >> Kendel Isserles == David Luria Drucker Rapaport >> Deborah Rivkah Luria Drucker (1545 \u2013 1617) == Shaul Wahl Katzenellenbogen<\/a> (ca. 1541 \u2013 1616) >> Meir Moshe Wahl Katzenellenbogen (ca. 1565 \u2013 ca. 1630) == Hinda Halevi Horowitz == Meir Moshe Wahl Katzenellenbogen (ca. 1565 \u2013 ca. 1630) >> Baila \/ Beila Katzenellenbogen == Jonah \/ Yonah I Frankel-Teomim <\/a>(1596 \u2013 1669) >> Ezekiel Joshua Feivel Teomim (ca. 1637 \u2013 ca. 1726) == Pearl Leib (1640 \u2013 1710) >> Chaim Jonah Frankel-Teomim == Sarah Oppenheim<\/a> >> Magdalene Genendel Frankel-Teomim (1713 \u2013 1778) == Simon Isaac Bondi <\/a>(1711 \u2013 1773) >> Jonas Bondi (1732 \u2013 1765) == Bella \/ Belle Schifra >> Clara \/ Caroline Bondi (1760-1829) == Koppel Loeb of Bamberg >> Moises Loeb \/ Moritz Reis<\/a> (1782 \u2013 1855) == \u00c9milie Bickartt (1784 ) >> Jonas Reis (1809 \u2013 1877) == Marian Samuel<\/a> (1825 \u2013 1900) >> REIS FAMILY<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Altschuler family was a prominent Jewish family originating in Prague in the 16th century. The descent to the Reis family is as follows: Avraham Avir Altschuler (Eberles) == N. N. >> Rabbi Moshe Gershon Altschuler == Chana Treves \/ Treivisch ( – 1559) >> Schprinze \/ Schripinza \/ Shprinze (Eberles) Altschuler == Yosef HaCohen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3076","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reiswolfesamuel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reiswolfesamuel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reiswolfesamuel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reiswolfesamuel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reiswolfesamuel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/reiswolfesamuel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"https:\/\/reiswolfesamuel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3076\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reiswolfesamuel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}