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I, Wandering Jew: A FiveCentury History Of Our Modern Condition
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Combining History, Detective Story, And Memoir, A Surprising And Revealing Account Of The Antisemitic Myth Of The Wandering JewThe Story Behind The Mythical Figure Of The Wandering Jew Is One Of The Most Fascinating Tales In European History. In I, Wandering Jew, National Jewish Book AwardWinning Historian Yair Mintzker Traces The Tale Back To Its Source, Follows Its Many Metamorphoses Through Five Centuries, And Relates It To The Fraught Present Moment.According To A Mysterious Pamphlet Published In 1602, The Wandering Jew Was A Real Person, Named Ahasversus, Who Was Cursed By Jesus To Eternal Wandering After Refusing To Help Him As He Was Led To His Crucifixion. For More Than Four Hundred Years, Many Otherwise Reliable Witnesses Have Claimed To Have Seen The Wandering Jew. Moving In Reverse Chronological Order, I, Wandering Jew Explores Crucial Episodes In The Story Of This Figure. We Meet An Unforgettable, Wandering JewLike Character Who Appeared Out Of Nowhere In Israel In The 1950S; A NineteenthCentury Novelist Who Was The First Jew To Favorably Describe The Wandering Jew; An EighteenthCentury German Scholar Who Saw The Wandering Jew Emerging From A Devastating Fire; And The Man Who Likely Inspired The 1602 Pamphlet.A Work Of History That Reads Like A Detective Story, I, Wandering Jew Is Also Part Memoir. As Mintzker Discovers Affinities Between His Own Story And That Of The Wandering Jew, The Surprising History Of An Old Antisemitic Trope And Its Meanings Becomes A Profound Meditation On Home And Exile, Judaism And Christianity, Poetry And Truth, The Deep Past And The Present.
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