Lot 175
Handwritten Document, in German – The Expulsion of a Jew from Austria to Turkey – 18th Century
Handwritten document recording the expulsion of a Jew, a Turkish subject, from the Habsburgian Empire. [Vienna?, ca. late 18th century]. German.
The document records the punishment of expulsion that was imposed on a Jew of Turkish origin named Samuel Moyses, due to having intimate relations with a Christian woman. The document indicates that the Jew had been imprisoned for three months at the Vienna prison and was later was led to the Turkish border under military guard, via Semlin (Zemun), Serbia.
Written in the margin (in a different pen): "1778".
[1] leaf, 33.5 cm. Good condition. Fold lines.
