Editing Wandering Jew (section)

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[[Hans Christian Andersen]] made his "Ahasuerus" the Angel of Doubt, and was imitated by [[Seligmann Heller|Heller]] in a poem on "The Wandering of Ahasuerus", which he afterward developed into three cantos. [[Martin Andersen Nexø]] wrote a short story named "The Eternal Jew", in which he also refers to Ahasuerus as the spreading of the Jewish gene pool in Europe.

The story of the Wandering Jew is the basis of the essay "The Unhappiest One" in [[Søren Kierkegaard]]'s ''[[Either/Or (Kierkegaard book)|Either/Or]]'' (published 1843 in [[Copenhagen]]). It is also discussed in an early portion of the book that focuses on [[Mozart]]'s opera ''[[Don Giovanni]]''.

In the play {{lang|da|Genboerne}} (''The Residents'') by [[Jens Christian Hostrup]] (1844), the Wandering Jew is a character (in this context called "Jerusalem's shoemaker") and his shoes make the wearer invisible. The protagonist of the play borrows the shoes for a night and visits the house across the street as an invisible man.