Horowitz, Chaim (Hyman). Kinath Yesurun [a lamentation on the death of Princess Charlotte.]

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

H. Barnett

(London)

(1817)

Single printed page. Hebrew text within ornamental border.

This version unrecorded.

This Hebrew poem of twelve verses is entirely unrecorded. A dirge on the pain of the Royal Family and the entire nation upon the untimely death of the Princess. Roth in Magna Bibliotheca Anglo Judaica p. 341 no 9 and Kiryat Sepher Vol. 14 p. 383 no. 12, followed by Vinograd London 213, all list a poem by this author issued with an English translation only. Daughter of King George IV, Princess Charlotte of Wales (b. 1796) died following childbirth at the age of 21. Her death set off tremendous mourning among the British, who had seen her as a sign of hope and a contrast both to her unpopular father and to her grandfather (George III) whom they deemed mad.