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Neolog Jewish Adaptation of the Official Line on Patriotic
Reverence for the Monarch during the Mourning for Franz
Joseph
Francis Joseph became a symbol of continuity with the past
and of a prosperous era. Because of the social changes that
had occurred in the lives of Jews, Francis Joseph was
compared even in his lifetime to Moses, and this became a
recurrent topos in the speeches of rabbis in connection with
the death and succession, showing parallels to the liberation
from Egyptian bonds. The editor-in-chief of Egyenlőség, Lajos
Szabolcsi, who followed his father in that post, used
comparisons to Moses and Joshua in writing on the connection
between Francis Joseph and the heir to the throne Karl Franz
Joseph. Just as Moses could not enter Canaan after the years
of wandering in the wilderness, so Francis Joseph could not
see the new world. Mourning for the great ruler who
“liberated” the Jewish denomination and attention paid to the
symbolic gestures of the new ruler were present in parallel
in the press. In Jewish interpretations between the two world
wars the period of Francis Joseph became a lost golden age,
while at the same time the Jewish denomination reinterpreted
state patriotic veneration of the king and national politics
that used Christian elements, within its own religious
frames, drawing on the language and community memory of
Judaism. In contemporary and commemorative speeches Francis
Joseph assumed the figure of a scriptural king who came to
resemble the great figures in the canon of Jewish memory
because of the community experience of the attainment of
social and denominational equality that occurred during his
reign.
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