Raḥel Raszka Fiszel
Raḥel Raszka Fiszel
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- high-level bureaucrat, etc.
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Банкир, пользовавшаяся огромным влиянием. Тhe Fiszel family was the wealthiest Jewish family of Kraków. Raḥel (Raszka) was the dominant figure in it; she was the financial agent of the queen mother, Elizabeth of Habsburg, the wife of King Casimir IV.aḥel, Mosheh’s wife, who had come to Kraków from Prague, began independent financial activities prior to her husband’s death, which occurred before 1489. She was creditor of the Polish kings Casimir IV the Jagiellonian, Jan Olbracht, and Aleksander. In 1504, King Aleksander allowed her to mint coins from his own metal, in a sufficient amount so that the difference between the nominal and actual values would cover the debt of 1,000 florins incurred by his predecessors on the throne. Out of gratitude for her service to the royal family, the king allowed Raḥel to purchase a house in Kraków at a time when Jews were permitted to reside only in Kazimierz, outside the city proper. Raḥel managed a mortgage bank. In 1495, when 30 Jews, including Raḥel’s son-in-law Ya‘akov Pollak and her brother-in-law, were arrested in Kraków, her name appeared on the list of persons obliged to guarantee that those released from prison would not leave the city.
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"Sparks Amidst the Ashes: The Spiritual Legacy of Polish Jewry" Byron L. Sherwin
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Raḥel Raszka Fiszel
(Prague - Lublin)
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