Aharon Jellinek / Yitzchak Noah Manheimer / Josef Rieter von Wertheimer

Aharon Jellinek / Yitzchak Noah Manheimer / Josef Rieter von Wertheimer
1. Medal in memory of Aharon (Adolf) Jellinek, a Jewish-German scholar, bibliographer and researcher of Judaism. Of "Chochmat Israel" movement leaders, and founder of the rabbinical seminary in Vienna. Cast bronze. Austria, 1893. Obverse: relief of Aharon Jellinek image and dates of his birth and death. Reverse: Inscription "not by forth but by my spirit…". Diameter 55 mm. 2. Medal commemorating the 70th birthday of Yitzchak Noah Manheimer (1793-1865), teacher and reform preacher. Cast bronze. Austria, 1863. Obverse: relief of Manheimer's image and the inscription "Dr. I. N. Mannheimer Prediger der Israelit Gemeinde in Wien"[Dr. Manheimer, preacher of the Vienna Jewish community]. Reverse: "Zum Siebzigsten Geburtstage" [for his seventieth birthday] and a biblical verse. Diameter: 50 mm. 3. Medal on behalf of the Vienna Jewish community representatives, in honor of Josef Rieter von Wertheimer (1800-1887), a Jewish educator native of Vienna, of the Vienna Jewish community leaders and fighter for equal civil rights for Austrian Jews. Cast copper. Vienna, 1867. Obverse: Relief of Wetheimer's image, his name and maker's mark. Reverse: "Dem Scheidenden Vorstands Praeses, Die Beamten" [the retiring chairman of the council]. Diameter: 43 mm.