Eisenstadt, Mei Ben-isaac

Eisenstadt, Mei Ben-Isaac a famous Talmudist, was born in Lithuania in 1670. He was rabbi at Eisenstadt, Hungary, and died there in 1744, leaving novellas on some Talmudic treatises, and homilies on the Pentateuch and the five Megilloth (i.e., Esther, Song of Songs, Lamentations, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:227; Zipser, in Literatur Blatt des Orient, 1847, 12:24. (B.P.)