God willing, I will compose a special booklet about the Sephardim of Vienna, from the day of their arrival, and about the magnificent synagogue as well. I was there many years ago and visited the synagogue, and was amazed to see the glorious building with its wonderfully painted arabesque – What a pity that it was burnt. I will write about the charitable institutions and the honorable people who served there from the day they were exiled from accursed Spain. I saw no mention of the Sephardi community in the chapter on Vienna in the Otzar Israel book - as though it were unaware of it. They mentioned only the Ashkenazi community and made no mention of the generations upon generations of rabbis. It is worthwhile, I feel, to compose this special booklet.