Aug. 16, 1796

“Decree” issued by the Austrian Government [Present-day Austria]: “[…] the [well-]known and so-called [poor] swindler-Jews (‘Winkeljuden’) and beggar-Jews (‘Betteljuden’) are not to be permitted by the border-route authorities (‘Linien’) to enter [Austria] at all […].”
Beyträge zur politischen Gesetzkunde im österreichischen Kaiserstaate; Herausgegeben von Johann Ludwig Ehrereich (Graf von Barth-Barthenheim): Erster Band; (Wien; 1821); (Contributions to the Political Statutes of the Austrian Royal State; published by Johann Ludwig Ehrereich (Earl of Barth-Barthenheim); (Volume I); (Vienna; 1821); Researched and Translated by Ziba Shadjaani 10/28/2017