Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The Schutzjuden thank Karl Theodor

And here's part of a prayer service for the 50 year rule of the late, great Karl Theodor; the date of this service, held in Sulzbach, was July 20, 1783:



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9 comments:

  1. ffiona bath Jiffachar4:12 PM, December 21, 2011

    Way cool! Tried acquiring what is now Belgium so that his out-of-wedlock kinderlakh could have something to rule, which was one of the things that led to the kerfuffeleh known as the War of the Bavarian Succession (and one of the terms of the treaty was that said kinderlakh couldn't rule anything). No major battles, but thousands of soldiers died of starvation and disease, which counts for something.

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  2. Joe in Australia12:08 AM, December 22, 2011

    I'm having difficulty with the way they write his name. What's the word spelled kuf-vav-hei-resh? And without making the obvious joke, is the last word supposed to be fürst?

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  3. S.12:13 AM, December 22, 2011

    It's Kurfürst, which means Elector. In those days it was written as two words, Kuhr-fürst.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince-elector

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  4. Shalom Rosenfeld12:21 PM, December 22, 2011

    In Or HaYashar, Isaac says he fears going to Dusseldorf "as it is under the fearsome Duke of Pfalz" -- I contacted a German historian who identified said Duke as none other than Karl Theodor.

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  5. Shalom Rosenfeld12:21 PM, December 22, 2011

    (In reference to the Get of Kleves).

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  6. S.12:24 PM, December 22, 2011

    Well you know how it is. You say "Fearsome tyrant," I say "אדונני החסיד."

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  7. Shalom Rosenfeld5:07 PM, December 22, 2011

    To make things further interesting, it's not *me* saying "fearsome tyrant", it's a fellow who claims he's compelled to run for his life and can't say more.

    I'm assuming here (check a map) that "Dilsdorf" was a typo and meant "Dusseldorf."

    אבל לא בדילסדארף שהוא תחת ממשלת הדוכס האדיר מפפאלץ יר״ה

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  8. S.5:18 PM, December 22, 2011

    I got that (you did, after all, cite the Or Hayashar). I was just making a play on tomato - tomahto, in this case that R. Yitzchak Seligmann is saying that, and this pamphlet portrays him a little nicer. Well, technically "אדונני החסיד" does not imply "nice." Judging by his biography, he wasn't such a החסיד either.

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  9. Shimon S7:54 PM, December 22, 2011

    "Judging by his biography, he wasn't such a החסיד either."

    Unless they were misnagdim in Sulzbach...

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