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Lot #    13415
Auction End Date    1/24/2006 2:19:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Poem in honor of Francis Joseph I of Hapsburg
Title (Hebrew)    שיר מזמור
Author    [Community - Unrecorded]
City    Prague
Publisher    Golllieb Hause Sohne
Publication Date    [1854]
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Flyer, 225:139 mm., light age staining. Rare and unrecorded - no other copy known.
          
Detailed
Description		    Poem in honor Francis Joseph I of Hapsburg's (Franz Joseph; 1830–1916), emperor of Austria 1848–1916, marriage to Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria (also Princess of Bavaria through her mother's side of the family), who became Elisabeth of Austria ("Sisi" or "Sissi"). 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.
          
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Bohemia
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
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