Contributions To Jewish History
His most important historical monographs are:
- Die Letzte Vertreibung der Juden aus Wien, Ihre Vorgeschichte (1625–70) und Ihre Opfer (Vienna, 1889; also in Hungarian)
- Zur Gesch. Jüdischer Familien: Samson Wertheimer, der Oberhoffactor und Landesrabbiner, 1658–1724, und Seine Kinder (Vienna, 1888)
- Urkundliches aus dem Leben Samson Wertheimers (Budapest, 1891; also in Hungarian)
- Die Familien Prags nach den Epitaphien des Alten Jüdischen Friedhofs in Prag, Zusammengestellt von Simon Hock, aus Dessen Nachlasse Herausgegeben, mit Anmerkungen Versehen und Biographisch Eingeleitet von Prof. Dr. D. Kaufmann (with Hebrew title-page, Presburg, 1892)
- Zur Gesch. Jüdischer Familien: I., R. Jair Chajjim Bacharach, 1638–1702, und Seine Ahnen (Treves, 1894)
- Dr. Israel Conegliano und Seine Verdienste um die Republik Venedigbis nach dem Frieden von Carlowitz (Budapest, 1895; also in Hungarian)
- Die Erstürmung Ofens und Ihre Vorgeschichte nach dem Berichte Isaak Schulhofs, 1650–1732; Herausgegeben und Biographisch Eingeleitet (Treves, 1895)
- Aus Heinrich Heine's Ahnensaal (Breslau, 1896)
- Die Memoiren der Glückel von Hameln (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1896, with Hebrew title-page);
- Die Chronik des Achimaaz aus Oria (reprint from "Monatsschrift," 1896).
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