The Wandering Jew - a magazine - 100 issues bound -Starting with the first issue. Paris, 1860-1861

The Wandering Jew - a magazine - 100 issues bound -Starting with the first issue. Paris, 1860-1861

LE JUIF ERRANT Journal de Romans, de Voyages et d'illustrations, paraissant le Mercredi et Samedi  - 'The Wandering Jew' - a magazine for novels, travels and illustrations, which appears on Wednesdays and Saturdays. A sequel story about the 'wandering Jew' which was published as an illustrated magazine. Issues 1-101. One hundred consecutive issues bound - Whole year sheets - various editors: Paris, from March 31, 1860 - to March 16, 1861. From the early publications published continuously on the subject of the 'Wandering Jew' in France.

On the title page of each issue is a painting of the character 'The Wandering Jew', and an antisemitic plot story usually in a medieval atmosphere, accompanied by illustrations of the plot, songs of the wandering Jew, and sometimes musical notes.

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 in France, portraying the wandering Jew as a foreign threat to human society.

100 consecutive sheets, bound. 32 cm. Few stains. Good condition.