!!!Wertheimer, Samson

b. Worms (Germany), 1658, 
d. Vienna, Aug. 6, 1724, court Jew and scholar; took residence in 
Vienna in 1684 as business associate of S.  Oppenheimer. Creditor and 
financial adviser of the imperial family; was awarded the title 
"Oberhoffaktor" (privileged position at the court) in 1703. Through 
his influence at the court he succeeded in preventing the antisemitic 
work "Entdecktes Judentum" (Jewry Exposed) by J. A. Eisenmenger 
from being sold. W. was regarded as a rabbinical scholar and promoted 
the printing of Hebrew works. In 1693 he was appointed honorary rabbi 
by the community of Eisenstadt and Hungarian rabbi by the emperor. His 
house in Eisenstadt has been the location of the Austrian  Jewish 
museum since 1982.

!Literature
D. Kaufmann, S. W., der Oberhoffaktor und 
Landesrabbiner (1658-1724) und seine Kinder, 1888; K. Schubert (ed.), 
Die oesterreichischen Hofjuden und ihre Zeit, 1991.



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