Sept. 19, 1799

“Decision/Announcement” (“Bescheid”) issued by the Royal Court Chancellery [Present-day Austria]: “[…] such Israelis (foreign Jews coming to study at the university in Vienna) are to produce a credible proof of their progress every six months and to refrain (‘sich zu enthalten’) from all [other] trades (‘Negotien’) […]”
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 11/21/2017