Wandering Jew
It might be offered as a sufficient reason for writing this book that no other treatise on the same subject exists in our language. But to this it may be added, that in pamphlets that have appeared in other languages, the relations of the Legend with Eastern mythology have bee...
It might be offered as a sufficient reason for writing this book that no other treatise on the same subject exists in our language. But to this it may be added, that in pamphlet...
2. Part 2“He relates many remarkable passages of Soliman the Magnificent, whereof our histories are silent, and says he was in Constantinople when Soliman built that royal mosque which g...
3. Part 3It is interesting to compare such primitive forms of the myth with those assumed by it amid the advanced phases of Animism. Tithonus, for whom Eos obtained the gift of immortali...
4. Part 4That Moses was substituted for Elias at the Transfiguration was probably due to the strong hold which the “Book of Enoch” had taken on the Jewish mind. In this work there are in...
5. Part 5The curse of Cain came upon yet another name,--Malchus. This servant of Caiaphas, whose ear cut off by Peter was healed by Jesus, had no reason to be thankful, it would appear b...
6. Part 6That the myth of the Wandering Jew was interwoven with that of the Demon Huntsman of Germany (which is called Aaskarreya in Norway), there can be no doubt. “Perhaps,” says Karl...
7. Part 7“Thou, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” So early did the compulsory tend...
8. Part 8The influence of Buddhism is traceable in the modifications of the original legend, which show the sacrifice not accepted as it was in the case of Vishnu, and to some extent in...
9. Part 9There is a tone of pity in the old verses which spread abroad the fable in Flanders, and has thence gone through many lands as _The Wandering Jew’s Complaint_, though with many...
10. Part 10JULIUS MOSEN is the first who treated the subject in a fuller and more independent way. His “Ahasuerus” (1838) is an epic. In the notes it is stated that the myth belongs to the...
11. Part 11The time of the Crusades comes. From all parts of the world the nations rush to Jerusalem, where once the altar of Jehovah stood. They are impelled by many selfish motives: no s...
12. Part 12The third “Day” is called DEATH. Death is represented under the name of Mob. And now a human spirit comes upon the scene--Rachel. As we have seen the tender Jesus passing out of...
13. Part 13In 1799 appeared the novel _St. Leon_, by William Godwin. It is not a very interesting work now, whatever it may have been at the time. The plot of it is, that a gentleman, who,...
14. Part 14It would be interesting to know at just what period of his life, or in which of his two lives, Wordsworth wrote this “Song.” Was it a memory of his dead self, the radical that f...
15. Part 15The devotion of Lord Beaconsfield to the Jewish people was a fearful retribution on the synagogue that drove out his father. His kiss was as fatal as it was sincere. He taught t...
16. Part 16“All old grey histories hiding thy clear features, O secret spirit and sovereign, all men’s tales, Creeds woven of men thy children and thy creatures, They have woven for vestur...
17. Part 17[39] The outlines of German poems that follow, are condensed from a pamphlet entitled:--_Die Sage vom ‘Ewigen Juden,’ ihre poetische Wandlung und Fortbildung_. Von Friedrich Hel...