An exhibit on the idea of the Wandering Jew opened in Paris. “The Wandering Jew: A Witness of the Times” opened last Friday at the Museum of the Art and History of Judaism. The exhibit presents pictorial and literary representations from antiquity to the present of the legend of the Wandering Jew, an idea that has played an important role in popular anti-Semitism and Christian theological anti-Judaism.
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