Editing Wandering Jew (section)

===17th and 18th centuries===

The legend became more popular after it appeared in a 17th-century pamphlet of four leaves, {{lang|de|Kurtze Beschreibung und Erzählung von einem Juden mit Namen Ahasverus}} (''Short Description and Tale of a Jew with the Name Ahasuerus'').{{efn|This professes to have been printed at [[Leiden]] in 1602 by an otherwise unrecorded printer "Christoff Crutzer"; the real place and printer cannot be ascertained.}} "Here we are told that some fifty years before, a bishop met him in a church at Hamburg, repentant, ill-clothed and distracted at the thought of having to move on in a few weeks."<ref name="daube 1955"/> As with [[urban legend]]s, particularities lend verisimilitude: the bishop is specifically Paulus von Eitzen, [[List of the bishops of Schleswig#Lutheran bishops and superintendents|General Superintendent of Schleswig]]. The legend spread quickly throughout Germany, no less than eight different editions appearing in 1602; altogether forty appeared in Germany before the end of the 18th century. Eight editions in Dutch and Flemish are known; and the story soon passed to France, the first French edition appearing in [[Bordeaux]], 1609, and to England, where it appeared in the form of a parody in 1625.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first1=Joseph |last1=Jacobs |first2=Lucien |last2=Wolf |encyclopedia=Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica: A Bibliographical Guide to Anglo-Jewish History |date=2013 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9781108053747 |page=44 |edition=digital facsimile |title=[221]: The Wandering Jew telling fortunes to Englishmen. 1625 |orig-date=1888|id=Jacobs and Wolf: ''Compilers''}} Reprinted in Halliwell, ''Books of Character''. London, 1857.{{fcn|reason=Is this [[James Halliwell-Phillipps]]? Not mentioned in his bibliography|{{subst:DATE}}|date=May 2023}}</ref> The pamphlet was translated also into [[Danish language|Danish]] and [[Swedish language|Swedish]]; and the expression "eternal Jew" is current in [[Czech language|Czech]], [[Slovak language|Slovak]], and German, {{lang|de|der ewige Jude}}. Apparently the pamphlets of 1602 borrowed parts of the descriptions of the wanderer from reports (most notably by [[Balthasar Russow]]) about an itinerant preacher called Jürgen.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Beyer|first=Jürgen|url=https://www.etis.ee/ShowFile.aspx?FileVID=39465|title=Jürgen und der ewige Jude. Ein lebender Heiliger wird unsterblich|journal=ARV. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore|issue=64|year=2008|pages=125–140|language=de}}</ref>{{dead URL|date=May 2023}}

In France, the Wandering Jew appeared in [[Simon Tyssot de Patot]]'s {{lang|fr|La Vie, les Aventures et le Voyage de Groenland du Révérend Père Cordelier Pierre de Mésange}} (1720).

In Britain, a ballad with the title ''The Wandering Jew'' was included in [[Thomas Percy (Bishop of Dromore)|Thomas Percy]]'s ''[[Reliques of Ancient English Poetry|Reliques]]'' published in 1765.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/reliquesancient00dodsgoog#page/n309/mode/2up ''Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads, songs and other pieces of our earlier poets, (chiefly of the lyric kind.) Together with some few of later date''], 3rd ed. (Volume 3). pp. 295−301, 128 lines of verse, with prose introduction</ref>

In England, the Wandering Jew makes an appearance in one of the secondary plots in [[Matthew Lewis (writer)|Matthew Lewis]]'s Gothic novel ''[[The Monk]]'' (1796). The Wandering Jew is depicted as an exorcist whose origin remains unclear. The Wandering Jew also plays a role in ''[[St. Leon (novel)|St. Leon]]'' (1799) by [[William Godwin]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Wallace Austin Flanders|title=Godwin and Gothicism: St. Leon|journal=Texas Studies in Literature and Language|volume=8|issue=4|date=Winter 1967|pages=533–545}}</ref> The Wandering Jew also appears in two English [[broadside ballad]]s of the 17th and 18th centuries, ''[[The Wandering Jew (ballad)|The Wandering Jew]]'', and ''[[The Wandering Jew's Chronicle]]''. The former recounts the biblical story of the Wandering Jew's encounter with Christ, while the latter tells, from the point of view of the titular character, the succession of English monarchs from William the Conqueror through either King Charles II (in the 17th-century text) or King George II and Queen Caroline (in the 18th-century version).<ref>{{cite web |publisher=English Broadside Ballad Archive |title=The Wandering Jew |url=http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/33903/album |access-date=10 September 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher=English Broadside Ballad Archive |title=The Wandering Jew's Chronicle |url=http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/31447/album |access-date=10 September 2014 }}</ref>

In 1797, the operetta ''The Wandering Jew, or Love's Masquerade'' by [[Andrew Franklin]] was performed in London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/f/Franklin_A/life.htm|title=Andrew Franklin|website=Ricorso}}</ref>