LEADER 02406nam 2200361zu 450 001 9910774812303321 005 20240124170258.0 010 $a0-472-90395-0 035 $a(CKB)29669657000041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929669657000041 100 $a20240117|2024uuuu || | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 200 10$aInstrument of memory $eencounters with the Wandering Jew /$fLisa Lampert-Weissig 210 $cUniversity of Michigan Press$d2024 311 08$a9780472133468 330 3 $aHow 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 adaptors 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. 517 3 $aEncounters with the Wandering Jew 606 $aWandering Jew in literature 606 $aWandering Jew in art 606 $aWandering Jew$xInfluence 606 $aMemory in literature 615 0$aWandering Jew in literature. 615 0$aWandering Jew in art. 615 0$aWandering Jew$xInfluence. 615 0$aMemory in literature. 676 $a809/.93353 700 $aLampert-Weissig$b Lisa$0592869 712 02$aMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan), 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910774812303321 996 $aInstrument of Memory$93771397 997 $aUNINA