14:55:47


[Login]   
[Book List]  
 
Bidding Information
Lot #    12223
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 12:26:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Heil Dir Kaiser ... Franz Josef des Ersten
Title (Hebrew)    אשריך מלך
Author    [Community] Jacob Fischer
City    Vienna
Publisher    Moritz Knoepfllmacher
Publication Date    1888
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 14, [1] pp., 201:135 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A very good copy bound in the original title paper wrappers, age stained and chipped. Rare - no copy in JUNL and many major collections.
          
Detailed
Description		    Liturgical poem in honor of Kaiser Franz Josef I's fortieth year of rule. Kaiser Francis Joseph I of Hapsburg (1830–1916), emperor of Austria 1848–1916, 25 wedding anniversary to Kaiserin Elisabet Amalia Eugenia. During his long reign he won popularity among all strata of Jewry in his empire and abroad. When he died the executive of the Austrian Zionists credited him with the betterment of the lot of the Jews in the empire, describing him as the "donor of civil rights and equality before the law, and their ever benevolent protector" (Blochs Wochenschrift, 33 (1916), 784). Anti-Semites nicknamed him "Judenkaiser." The Jewish masses referred to him as h"rych (ha-keisar, yarum hodo: "the emperor, may his Majesty be exalted"), and many folklorist tales were told of him, among them that the prophet Elijah had promised him a long life. The synagogues were always full for the services held on his birthday, which were also attended by gentile dignitaries. Francis Joseph appreciated the role of the Jews as a sector of the population both devoted to and dependent on the monarchy at a time of growing internal national tensions.
          
Paragraph 2    שיר חג היובל. ביום ב... דעצעמבער... 1888... מלאו ארבעים שנה לשבת מלכנו... פראנץ יאזעף הראשון... על כסא מלכותו... מאת יעקב פישער... בשנת ב'ר'כ'ה' א'ל' מ'ל'כ'נ'ו' ה'א'ד'י'ר' ו'ה'א'ה'ו'ב'
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0158278 (based on single copy); EJ
        
Associated Images
2 Images (Click thumbnail to view full size image):
  Order   Image   Caption
  1   Click to view full size  
  
  2   Click to view full size  
  
  
Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austria
  
Subject
History:    Checked
Liturgy:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica