Mar. 7, 1818

“Jewish employees in Christian printing houses” decree of the Lower-Austrian government to the Highest Police Authority [Lower-Austria; Present-day Austria]: “Israeli type setters and editors are to be tolerated in Christian printing houses only when it’s absolutely necessary […] their stay is only to be extended one year at a time […] no Israeli apprentice is to be accepted without the explicit permission of the government.”
Braumüller, Wilhelm: Urkunden und Akten zur Geschichte der Juden in Wien. Erste Abteilung. Allgemeiner Teil 1526-1847. Zweiter Band. (Wien) 1918; p. 380, Researched and Translated by Ziba Shadjaani 5/8/2016