Leopold Kompert

His stories depicting the life, customs, and manners of the Bohemian Jews have become classical and have found many imitators.

Seeing that under the leveling influence of the present day the characteristic inner Jewish life is threatened to vanish, he endeavors to preserve its originality, its deeper psychological, sentimental, and ethical spirit, for the knowledge of posterity.

Then followed In Franzi und Heini, a picture of Vienna society, the Jewish peddler Perl Blüthenstern plays an important part.

Graetz and Kompert were brought to court in Vienna for publishing ideas that were heretical to Catholic faith, in addition to contradicting Jewish tradition.

Viennese rabbis Isaak Noah Mannheimer and Lazar Horowitz defended Graetz, and Azriel Hildesheimer criticized them for doing so.