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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 hundreds of adaptations by artists and writers. Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew, the first English-language study of the legend in over fifty years, is also the first to examine the influence of the legend's medieval and early modern sources over the centuries into the present day. Using the lens of memory studies, the work shows how the Christian tradition of the legend centered the memory of the Passion at the heart of the Wandering Jew's curse. Instrument of Memory also shows how Jewish artists and writers have reimagined the legend through Jewish memory traditions. Through this focus on memory, Jewish adapters of the legend create complex renderings of the Wandering Jew that recognize not only the entanglement of Jewish and Christian memory, but also the impact of that entanglement on Jewish subjects. This book presents a complex, sympathetic, and more fully realized version of the legend while challenging the limits of the presentism of memory studies.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: The Wandering Jew and Christendom
Chapter One: The Wandering Jew as Relic in Matthew Paris's Chronica majora
Chapter Two: The 1602 Kurtze Beschreibung: A Lutheran Recalibration
Part Two: The Wandering Jew in the Age of Emancipation
Chapter Three: Eugène Sue's Le Juif errant
Chapter Four: Heine and the Wandering Jew's Beard
Part Three: The Wandering Jew and Jerusalem in an Age of Global War
Chapter Five: Marc Chagall's Remembrance and White Crucifixion
Chapter Six: Uri Zvi Greenberg's King Ahasver
Chapter Seven: Edmond Fleg's Jésus: Raconté par Le Juif errant
Chapter Eight: Sholem Asch's The Nazarene
Part Four: Contemporary Encounters with the Wandering Jew
Chapter Nine: Stefan Heym's Ahasver
Chapter Ten: The Wandering Jew in the Twenty-First Century: Eshkol Nevo, Dara Horn, and Sarah Perry
Conclusion
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