Description
Book SynopsisUsing the lens of memory studies, the work shows how the Christian tradition of the Wandering Jew legend centred 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.
Trade ReviewWith its new analysis of a well-known and enduringly popular legend and new identifications of Jewish literary and artistic re-imaginings of it,
Instrument of Memory will be an important intervention in both literary criticism and Jewish studies. It also provides new insights relevant to our understanding of nationalism and antisemitism, subject areas in which the author has published other important work. For medievalists, it newly demonstrates how medieval Christian tropes and ideas provided the historical infrastructure for antisemitisms of later periods, which is an issue of concern across disciplines." - Debra Strickland, University of Glasgow
Table of 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
- Bibliography
