Instrument of Memory
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...
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University of Michigan Press
2024
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1329932025-03-21T04:26:59Z Instrument of Memory Lampert-Weissig, Lisa 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 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: classical, early & medieval bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRJ Judaism 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. 2024-01-16T04:01:04Z 2024-01-16T04:01:04Z 2024-01-15T14:46:05Z 2024 book OCN: 1391228141 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86859 9780472133468 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/132993 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86859/1/9780472903955.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86859/1/9780472903955.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86859/1/9780472903955.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86859/1/9780472903955.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.11631482 10.3998/mpub.11631482 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472133468 293 open access |
| spellingShingle | 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 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: classical, early & medieval bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRJ Judaism Lampert-Weissig, Lisa Instrument of Memory |
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| topic | 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 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: classical, early & medieval bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRJ Judaism |
| topic_facet | 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 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: classical, early & medieval bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRJ Judaism |
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