Mordecai ben David Strelisker (Hebrew: מרדכי בן־דוד סטרעליסקער; 8 November 1806 – 15 October 1875),[1] also known by the acronym Marvad Sat (מרב״ד ס״ט), was a Romanian Maskilic writer, poet, and ḥazzan.
[1] He spent his youth in his native town, where he acquired a knowledge of Hebrew literature under the instruction of Isaac Erter and Nachman Krochmal.
[2][3] Strelisker's most important literary contributions are twelve essays in volumes 8–11 of Bikkure ha-Ittim.
[4] His other published works include Zakat shever, a lamentation on the death of Zalman Margulies; Ta'aniyat yeshurun, an elegy on the death of Emperor Francis I of Austria, sung during a mourning ceremony held in the old Brody synagogue; Zekher 'olam, a biography and an elegy of his father; and Shirah la-kohen (reprinted from Ha-Maggid, 1860), on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of J. S.
[5] He was also an activist of the Alliance Israélite Universelle,[6] and advocated for rationalism in Judaism, modern Jewish education, and the emancipation of Romanian Jewry.