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Wandering Jew

noun

  1. a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.
  2. Also wan顎僤ering Jew顎, 奥补苍路诲别谤路颈苍驳-箩别飞 [] Also called inch plant. any of various trailing or creeping plants, as Zebrina pendula or Tradescantia fluminensis, having green or variegated leaves: a popular houseplant.


Wandering Jew

1

noun

  1. (in medieval legend) a character condemned to roam the world eternally because he mocked Christ on the day of the Crucifixion
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

wandering Jew

2

noun

  1. any of several related creeping or trailing plants of tropical America, esp Tradescantia fluminensis and Zebrina pendula: family Commelinaceae
  2. a similar creeping plant of the genus Commelina
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Wandering Jew1

First recorded in 1625鈥35
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Pim had read one of Roth鈥檚 works years before 鈥 a book called 鈥淭he Wandering Jews,鈥 in which Roth returns to his Galician homeland to describe the 鈥渨onder-rabbis鈥 and the Jewish believers who flocked to them.

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But when we encounter this man in folklore, he鈥檚 known by another, more familiar name: the Wandering Jew.

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The visage of philanthropist George Soros, made into the durable caricature of the Wandering Jew of old, was plastered around Hungary.

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The Wandering Jew ring that belonged to my husband, Carl, is very important to me.

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His 2007 book 鈥淭he Barn Owl鈥檚 Wondrous Capers,鈥 for instance, chronicles an unnamed narrator鈥檚 search for an eighteenth-century book of scandals, written by an Indian version of the 鈥淲andering Jew鈥 of medieval Christian mythology.

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