Feb 26, 2023
i just learned about the legend of ahasver and it makes my favorite chapter from one of my favorite books so much better.
Translation of Le chant des morts
chapter 10 is called The Wandering Jew. it was beautiful and powerful and stuck out to me enough that it still comes up in my mind years later.
however, i only just discovered the broader context of this story-- about how wiesel's teacher is spoken of in such a way as to implicitly invoke the mythos of this immortal character of The Wandering Jew.
it leaves me with the unshakable feeling that to properly understand the rest of the memoir, i need to learn a lot more jewish folklore. time to find an anthology or two of that ig