Baruch Benedict Veit Rausnitz

Dr. Konrad Rombusch on Nathan Veitel/Feitel = Veitel Levi = Veitel Meyer, Ha-Levy: Quoting from G. Wolf, Geschichte der Juden in Wien (1156-1876), Wien 1876, & Dr. David Kaufmann, Die Letzte Vertreibung der Juden aus Wien und Niederoesterreich, ihre Vorgeschichte (1625-1670) und ihre Opfer, Budapest 1889:

After the envy & enmity of the Viennese Christian population continually increased during the decade of the 60s, Kaser Leopold III issued a decree on 28 Feb 1670, that by by Corpus Christi all the Jews of Vienna (~3000 people) and lower Austria (477 people) must emigrate. The last one left Viena in July 1670.

A group moved, on invitation of the Prussian King Fredrich Wilhelm (der Grosse Kurfuerst), to Berlin; he welcomed warmly enterprising and affluent settlers to the underpopulated Brandenburg. Among these was Baruch, known the secular authorities as Benedick Veit (son of Menachem Manes Rausnitz) who moved there in 1671. Baruch received a Schutzbrief on 8 Sept. 1671, which was extended to, among others, his uncle Benjamin Mirel = Fraenkel. In his turn, the latter brought his nephew Nathan Feital with him. The exiles quickly got their economic, intellectual & religious footing. Contacts with German Jewish families soon led to marriages with them, as his son demonstrated. 1678-80 at the Leipzig Fair, 1690 owner of a general store (Wiener, Monatsschrift f. Wissenschaft d. Judentums, 1864, p 44), several times chair of Chevra Kadisha (Burial Society) (Brothers - Josef, Parnas of the Jewish Community of Vienna, resident in Kremsier after the expulsion, took with him the Memorial Book of the Klaus Synagogue of Vienna (Dr. D. Kaufmann, Das Memorbuch der Klaussynaogoge Zacharias Lewi's aus Wien in Misslitz, in Magazin fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums [ed. By Dr. A. Berliner & Dr. D. Hoffmann] Berlin, vol 17, 1890), founded a Beth Hamidrash there, died 1706, son: Josef; Isachar Beer, 2 Oct 1661 oo Kroendel, daughter of Koppel Fraenkel; Jehuda Loeb, adviser at the construction of the Klaus and its Synagogue, "full of good works, learning and piety" (Kaufmann, Die Letzte Vertreibung, etc) died Berlin 23 Jan 1700, oo 2. Sara Fraenkel (Mirels)

Wolff = Wolff Veitel Meyer, born Vienna ~1661, 1700-1704 at the Leipzig Fair, according to Kaufmann, Die Letzte Vertreibing, "successor to his father in all his good works, in learning and in piety", married Berlin Friday 21 Sep. 1739, Hendel Hameln.

Rechel Meyer Ha-Levy, brother = Feitel, patron of Jewish literature, according to Kaufmann, Die Letzte Vertreibung, born ~ 1702, died Berlin 30 Sep 1756, oo Baruch Bendit