Tolerated Jews of Vienna: Die Ersten Statuten des Bethauses in der Inneren Stadt (The First Statutes of the Temple in the Inner City)

On March 18, 1829, seventy-one representatives of the Jews of Vienna executed a formal governing document. The community had in1826 opened its new Stadttempel in the Seitenstettengasse, the first public prayer house permitted since the expulsion of Jews from Vienna in 1670. The first rabbi was Isak Noa Mannheimer and the first cantor was Salomon Sulzer. In 1852, the provisional statutes of the Vienna community were finally recognized by Kaiser Franz Josef as the official governing document of the Jewish community.

In 1857, there were only 2,617 Jews in Vienna. By 1900, Vienna had become Europe's third-largest Jewish community (after Warsaw and Budapest). On the eve of the Nazi Anschluss in 1938, Vienna had approximately 176,000 Jews.

The seventy-one signatories in 1829 included both men and women, representatives of the Jews who at that time held "tolerated" status in the imperial city of Vienna. (The Judenordnung of 1764 had laid down that Jews seeking ‘‘tolerated’’ status had to invest their wealth in manufacturing in order to obtain permission to live in the imperial capital.) The names and biographies of the signers of the 1829 Statutes of the Temple in the Inner City were compiled by published in 1926.

1. Benedikt David Arnstein (c.1758-1841)
2. Josef Arnstein (1771-1855)
3. Markus Mayer Baumgarten (c.1749-1832)
4. Ignatz Beer
5. Joseph Biedermann (1801-1864)
6. Michael Lazar Biedermann (1769-1843)
7. Moses Bunzel
8. Salomon Camondo (1775-1857)
9. Arnold Engel (1788-1859)
10. Ludwig Eppinger (-1834)
11. Isak Figdor (1768-1850)
12. Lazar Gothold Goldstein (1786-1850)
13. Samuel Gottlieb
14. Bernhard Grünebaum (1787-1837)
15. Josef Haikes (1771-1850)
16. Jakob Hayne (1790-1858)
17. Joachim Heim
18. Hermann Herzenskron (1789)
19. Moritz Hürsch
20. Karl Hirschmann (1785-1850)
21. Isak Löw Hofmann Edler von Hofmannsthal (1759-1849)
22. Maximilian Edler von Hönigsberg (1754-1832)
23. Moses Koblenzer (1755-1834)
24. Amalia Kohn (1798-1855)
25. Moritz Königswarter (1780-1829)
26. Julie Landauer (1769-1841)
27. Benjamin Landesmannn (1764-1831)
28. Karl Leidesdorf (1788-1850)
29. Magdalena Leidesdorf (Koblenz)
30. Markus Abraham Leidesdorf
31. Joachim Leidesdorfer (1738-1834)
32. August Leon (1785-1841)
33. Rosalie Levi
34. Samuel Lewinger (1758-1838)
35. Ignaz Ritter von Liebenberg (1769-1844)
36. Jakob Löwy (1781-1864)
37. Markus Luzzatto
38. Adam Markbreiter (1779-1846)
39. Ascher Matzel
40. Salomon Mayer (1779-1848)
41. Wolf Isak Nassau (1757-1838)
42. Markus Rittter von Neuwall (1758-1838)
43. Josef Magnus Österreicher (1755-1831)
44. Isaia Pontzen (1778)
45. Jacob Reichenstein (-after 1847)
46. Josef Reiter (1760)
47. Moses Reitlinger (1772-1839)
48. Michael David Schiel (1776-1852)
49. Herz Philipp Schinow (-1833)
50. Hermann Schlesinger
51. Michael Löb Schlesinger (1780-1836)
52. Anton Schnapper (1790-1870)
53. Elisabeth Sichrovsky (Kuh)
54. David Semler
55. Moses Sidwers
56. Joseph Simon (1791-1834)
57. Angelus Sinzheimer (1764-1831)
58. Bernhard Spitzer
59. Markus Stern (-1861)
60. Hermann Todesco (1791-1844)
61. Rosalie Trebitsch (-1855)
62. Jakob Wartfeld (1778-1845)
63. Markus Hirsch Weikersheim (-1863)
64. Bernhard Wertheim (1804-1854)
65. Ernst Wertheim (1785-1834)
66. Zacharias Wertheim (1780-1852)
67. Siegfried Philipp Wetheimber (1777-1836)
68. Jakob Wertheimer
69. Salomon Josef Wertheimer (1758-1836)
70. Heinrich Wilhelm Edler von Wertheimstein (1799-1859)
71. Sigmund Edler von Wertheimstein (1797-1854)

Names of Tolerated Jews in Vienna whose signatures did not appear on the Statute:

1. Freiherr Nathan Adam von Arnstein
2. Theresia von Arnstein (Wertheimer)
3. Samuel Bacher
4. Hirsch Bachrach
5. Freiherr Bernhard von Eskeles
6. Heinrich Fein
7. Markus Fein
8. Jakob Fleckeles
9. Regina Frankenstein
10. Salomon Goldberg
11. Josef Goldschmied
12. Rebekka Herz
13. Laura Jerusalem (Kohn)
14. Babetta Kohn (Uffenheimer)
15. Elizabeth Kohn (Bauer)
16. Juliana Kolinzki
17. Magdalena Kremsier
18. Simon Edler von Lämel
19. Jakob Lang
20. Salomon Lehmann
21. Saul Lehmann
22. Hermann Lemberger
23. Barbara Lichtenstadt
24. Jakob Mardayn
25. Efraim Salman Margulies
26. Cäcilia Mayer
27. Elise Mühlberg
28. Sybilla Nathan
29. Jakob Neustadtl
30. Wilhelmine Oppenheim
31. Isak Österreicher
32. David Pollak
33. Theresia Poppe
34. Salomon Preisach
35. Ernestine Rechert
36. Juliana Schaffer
37. Salomon Schaffer
38. Sara Schlesinger
39. Isak Schornstein
40. Jakob Steinschneider
41. Menasche Sternberg
42. Henriette Strimm (Poppe)
43. Kaspar Tobias
44. Ignatz Wertheimer
45. Karl Zappert (1783-1855)