Instrument of Memory Encounters with the Wandering Jew

• Main Author: Lampert-Weissig, Lisa (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Michigan Press 2024
• Subjects: Humanities; European history; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Judaism; Wandering Jew, Ahasverus, memory studies, Matthew Paris, Eugène Sue, Heinrich Heine, Marc Chagall, Edmond Fleg, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Sholem Asch, Stefan Heym, Eshkol Nevo, Dara Horn, Sarah Perry, Maurice Halbwachs, legend, Jewish-Christian relations, antisemitism studies, collective memory, cultural memory, lieu de mémoire, Ahasuerus, Judeo-Christian tradition, Biblical legend, the Passion of Christ, immortality, Jewish art, Jewish literature, Medieval art and literature
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How can immortality be a curse? According to the Wandering Jew legend, as Jesus made his way to Calvary, a man refused him rest, cruelly taunting him to hurry to meet his fate. In response, Jesus cursed the man to wander until the Second Coming. Since the medieval period, the legend has inspired hun...