Jewish Solicitory Poetry in the Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire: Materiality, Poetics, Diplomacy
This article provides a transdisciplinary analysis of solicitory Hebrew panegyrics composed in the late eighteenth century to aesthetically articulate political, social, and economic aspirations of Jews in the Russian Empire to Catherine II. It shows that the poetic solicitations, enhanced with dist...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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AJS review
Year: 2025, Volume: 49, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-29 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Judaism
/ Russia
/ Poetics
/ Diplomacy
/ Geschichte 18.Jahrhundert
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism |
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| Summary: | This article provides a transdisciplinary analysis of solicitory Hebrew panegyrics composed in the late eighteenth century to aesthetically articulate political, social, and economic aspirations of Jews in the Russian Empire to Catherine II. It shows that the poetic solicitations, enhanced with distinct decorative features and presented at pomp-filled ceremonies, had a theurgical aesthetic effect, making positive outcomes more likely. Toward this end, the article discloses the poems' material, visual, and textual aspects, highlighting their ornamentation, length, and the quality of their material, and suggesting that they were prized not only as cultural capital, but also as luxury goods with tangible characteristics., Abstract:, This article provides a transdisciplinary analysis of solicitory Hebrew panegyrics composed in the late eighteenth century to aesthetically articulate political, social, and economic aspirations of Jews in the Russian Empire to Catherine II. It shows that the poetic solicitations, enhanced with distinct decorative features and presented at pomp-filled ceremonies, had a theurgical aesthetic effect, making positive outcomes more likely. Toward this end, the article discloses the poems' material, visual, and textual aspects, highlighting their ornamentation, length, and the quality of their material, and suggesting that they were prized not only as cultural capital, but also as luxury goods with tangible characteristics. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/ajs.2025.a958075 |
