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LOT 56:
Advertisement poster for the film "The Wandering Jew" LE JUIF ERRAT. France, the 1930s
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Advertisement poster for the film "The Wandering Jew" LE JUIF ERRAT. France, the 1930s
Advertising poster on camera paper for the film "The Wandering Jew" LE JUIF ERRAT, France 1930s.
In the center is a shadow figure of the "wandering Jew" in a cloak holding the walking stick in his hand, below the Characters of the actors in the film, and a large spider web that emanates from a menacing Character. The Jew is seen from behind slicing the cobwebs all over the human world. On the right are the names of the director, actors, and details about the film.
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 it served as an object of various anti-Semitic stories about the Jews that appeared in caricatures mainly in nineteenth-century France, portraying the wandering Jew as a foreign threat to human society.
Glossy camera paper. Size: 21x17 cm.
Tears and stains. Moderate-fine condition.
