Editing Wandering Jew (section)

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The Soviet [[satire|satirists]] [[Ilya Ilf]] and [[Yevgeni Petrov (writer)|Yevgeni Petrov]] had their hero [[Ostap Bender]] tell the story of the Wandering Jew's death at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists in ''[[The Little Golden Calf]]''. In [[Vsevolod Ivanov]]'s story ''Ahasver'' a strange man comes to a Soviet writer in [[Moscow]] in 1944, introduces himself as "Ahasver the cosmopolite" and claims he is Paul von Eitzen, a theologian from [[Hamburg]], who concocted the legend of the Wandering Jew in the 16th century to become rich and famous but then turned himself into a real Ahasver against his will. The novel ''Overburdened with Evil'' (1988) by [[Arkady and Boris Strugatsky]] involves a character in modern setting who turns out to be Ahasuerus, identified at the same time in a subplot with [[John of Patmos|John the Divine]]. In the novel ''Going to the Light'' ({{lang|ru|Идущий к свету}}, 1998) by Sergey Golosovsky, Ahasuerus turns out to be [[Apostle Paul]], punished (together with [[Moses]] and [[Mohammed]]) for inventing false religion.