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o town temporarily on business which
was never prohibited, made Il living on
their .'Schutz' One of them whose
name was Engel was humor6usly call
cd the "Schutzengel" Guardian An
geD.
SO at the time when the boy
Francis Joseph gladdened the hearts
of the Vienna Jews by calling them
n congregation, they already number
ed 4156 souls, but lacking corporate
rights for nearly two centuries, they
were merely Vienna Jews who could
elect .sVertretet' but could form no
congregation and have no "Norsteher.
1t is easily imagined that such large
number of Jews could not be without
a synagog and rabbi. The latter
could easily be supplied in a round
about way. My own ancestor, great
crandfather's great grandfather, Jacob
T,liezer Brunschwig, who died as rabbi
of Vienna in 1923. was officially reg
istered as family chaplain TO the court
Jew. Samson Wertheimer (165S-1124,)
4 relative of Oppenheimer's. first EN-
l,loyed by him and afterwards becom-
ing independent The last rabbi of
the old school, Lazar Horwitz (1So4-
1861, a great grandson Of the famous
Phineas Horwitz of Frankfurt II. Nj.
'Haflaah). was elected as n "Rit-
ualienaufseher' supervisor of kash-
ruth, and his colleagues. Isaac Noah
Mannheimer (1793-1S65) who was the
preacher of the congregation, was Of
ficially n "Ieeligionslehrer" who gave
occasional addresses in the synagog
With the building of a synagog the
matter was more difficult. The Jews
were, of course, all the time permitted
TO hold services in private houses
where rooms might be set aside as
"Betstube," but building II synaSog
would have been recognition of
"Gemeinde." and to this emperor
Francis 1T92-1S35) narrow minded
autocrat. would never consent. But
Jew never gives up. The leading
man in the congregation was Michael
I;azar Biedermath (17GD1Sf3),
iewelcr, who thru his business was III
close contact with the highest circles
cf the residence and probably with
the aid of diamond rings scarf pins
and similar powerful arguments won
the high-ups, and thru them the em-
peror. over. 1t is told that he. had
one of the rafters of the ceiling in the
.Betstube' sawed so that the ceiling
began to settle. The building inspec-
itdr and the chief of police, being call
/ ed in. declared the place dangerous.
and recommended in view of the diff
ficulty of procuring appropriate rent
ed quarters that .'the Vertcrtcr Of
the Vienna Israelites' be given per-
mission to buy piece of property and
build a Temple" This permission
was given under the condition that
nothing in the architecture must show
that this was n place of worship, and
indeed the front where the offices and
apartments for the use of the rabbi
and cantor were located looks like an
ordinary apartment house.
The new synagog was dedicated on
the traditional day for such occasion,
on the first day of Nisan, 1926, and
with the new building new forms OF
worship came. They were of n very
mild nature. In America the services
would be considered rigidly orthodox.
The changes consisted in eliminating
some Piyyutim, in regular Music but
without any instrument and with Il
| male choir and in the Introduction OF
| like the prayer for the government, in
| the vernacular. Yet in those days
even these changes were considered
dangerous innovations. Rabbi Lazar
Horwitz had scruples and he submiti
ted them to his teacher Moses Sofcr,
who declared there was no objection
to his attending the services when he
had said his prayers before, and when
the preacher delivered his -''blas-
phemous sermons" he should read
some book The preacher was l. n.
Mannheimer, and the cantor the celc-
hrated pioneer of modern slnagog
music, Solomon Sulzer 1a0i-1S90.) SO,
the "Ssadt-Tempel," still existing in
the same place with the same order
of services. became a historic inststu-
ton
The revolution of 1913 brought the
provisional constitution OF April 25th,
which abolished all determinations on
The ground of religion. The Jews
Were now permitted to settle freely
in Vienna. Reaction, however, set in
very soon. The emperor dissolved the
"Reichstag" and issued "A constitution
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