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Lot #    18058
Auction End Date    6/12/2007 10:29:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Kether Malchuth ... Gedicht... Kaisers Franz Josef
Title (Hebrew)    כתר מלכות
Author    [Community] Jacob Fischer
City    Vienna
Publisher    (Jacob Schlossberg)
Publication Date    1867
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [1], 8, [1] pp., 244:153 mm., light age staining, several tears. A good copy bound as issued.
          
Detailed
Description		    Liturgical poem in honor of Kaiser Franz Josef I's coronation ar ruler of Hungary. 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 לחג... בו נתנה עטרת מלכות אונגארן על ראש... פראנץ יאזעף הראשון... מאת יעקב פישער. בשנת י'ח'י'ה' מ'ל'כ'נ'ו' א'ה'ו'ב'נ'ו' י'מ'י'ם' ב'ר'ו'כ'י'ם'
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0158282; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austria
  
Subject
History:    Checked
Liturgy:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, some German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica