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"THE WANDERING JEW"

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
 THE WANDERING JEW
Broadside, 13" x 16 3/4", hand-colored engraving Le Juif-Errant ("The Wandering Jew"), printed by Gangel and P. Didion, Metz, France, a hand-colored unflattering image of a Jewish merchant asking directions of a Frenchman, bearing a lengthy anti-Semitic poem at bottom. The original tale is from medieval folklore and concerns a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion - he is then cursed to walk the earth until the Second Coming. Goebbels' propaganda machine used this tale to good effect in their ongoing efforts at Jewish persecution.

Estimate: $200 - 300.

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