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LOT 25:
The death of the wandering Jew. France, 19th century
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The death of the wandering Jew. France, 19th century
LA MORT DU JUIF - ERRANT - The death of the wandering Jew. Hand-painted antisemitic poster, by illustrator E. phosty, Epinal Publishing. France, 19th century. Rare.
A large poster divided into a 'sequel story' about the wandering Jew who cooperated with the devil and finds no rest, and eventually forced to confess to Jesus about his sins. On the left French poems that express the plight of the 'wandering Jew': 'wandering without limit in eternal despair ... I can no longer drag my feet ... how can I escape my fate? ...'.
The legend of the wandering Jew is based on The Middle Ages anti-Semitic folk tale about the Jew who, because he lost his death, could not lose his life, and therefore occasionally appears in different forms and plays different roles. The legend originated in 1228 in a story about a Christian priest who met a Jew (And according to one version Jesus himself who met a Jewish shoemaker on the way to his death), and it served as an object of various anti-Semitic stories about the Jews that appeared in caricatures mainly in nineteenth-century France, portraying the wandering Jew as a foreign threat to human society.
40x30 cm. Very good condition.
