Ahasver is a 1981 German-language novel by Stefan Heym. It was published in English as The Wandering Jew in 1984.Martin Gardner - From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley Jr 2000 The most recent novel about the Wanderer is by German ex-communist Stefan Heym, a pseudonym for Hellmuth Flieg. In his The Wandering Jew, published in West Germany in 1981 and in a U.S. edition three years later, the Wanderer is a hunchback who tramps the roads with Lucifer as his companion. The fantasy ends with the Second Coming, Armageddon ....
This legend tells of Ahasuerus, a Jewish shoemaker on the Via Dolorosa, who refused to let Jesus rest in front of his house when he carried his own cross on the way to his crucifixion. Therefore, Jesus condemned him to wander the earth until Judgment Day.
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