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MANNHEIMER, ISAAC NOAH
(1793-1865). Testimonial Certificate presented to Rabbi Mannheimer on the occasion of ...

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MANNHEIMER, ISAAC NOAH
(1793-1865). Testimonial Certificate presented to Rabbi Mannheimer on the occasion of his 70th birthday presented by Esrat Israel - Verein zur Unterstützung bedrängter Israeliten, Vienna. October 17, 1863.



Single leaf illuminated manuscript. Congratulatory German text, with elaborate decorative elements. Autograph signatures by the leaders of Esrat Israel: Schlesinger and one other. Photographic portrait of Mannheimer at top.
17 x 21 inches.
Vienna: 1863


Esrat Israel = Verein zur Unterstützung bedrängter Israeliten (Association for the Support of Afflicted Israelite) was a relief organization founded in 1853 in Leopoldstadt, Vienna, to support impoverished Jews. Born in Copenhagen Isaak Noah Mannheimer was the son of the local Hazan. He took up philosophy, Oriental languages, and theology at the university there, at the same time continuing his studies in Talmud. Following the emancipation of the Jews in Denmark in 1814, Mannheimer was appointed the first royal catechist. In 1824 he was called to Vienna to direct the Israelite religious school, thereafter he was preacher and then appointed rabbi. Mannheimer helped to shape the so-called "Viennese Rite" or "Mannheimer Ritus", which spread in Jewish communities in Austria, Hungary, Bohemia and partly also in Germany and, as a moderate modern form, prevented a split of the Viennese community. Many of his sermons have been published, his main work being Wiener Gebetbuch, first published in 1840. On his seventieth birthday the city of Vienna conferred honorary citizenship upon him. Mannheimer devoted the gifts bestowed by the community upon him on that occasion to a foundation for the aid of rabbis and teachers. The dedication on the certificate reads: "In recognition of the great merits which His Honor has rendered to the elevation and promotion of Judaism in general, to the organization of the local Jewish community, as well as to the creation and establishment of various humanitarian and charitable institutions in particular, by which this widely renowned veteran of Jewish homiletics has shaped and transformed the Jewish community of the [imperial] residence with rare self-sacrificing energy and untiring zeal, into the prime model community of the monarchy worthy of imitation.”