COMA (Koma), HERZ

COMA (Koma), HERZ, dayyan and leader of the Vienna community at the time of the 1670 expulsion. He was one of the signatories of the letter sent by the community to Manuel Texeira asking him to petition Queen Christina of Sweden to intervene. In another effort he and leo winkler offered the emperor leopold i 100,000 florins if he would allow 1,000 Jews to stay in Vienna. After the death of hirschel meyer (c. 1673–75), Coma became the leader of the Viennese Jews who had settled in mikulov (Nikolsburg). Acting through the archduchess of Innsbruck, he again endeavored to obtain the return of the Jews to Austria. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: D. Kaufmann, Die letzte Vertreibung der Juden aus Wien (1889), 132–4, 168–70.