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	Wandering Jew (plant) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wandering Jew has escaped from cultivation in many areas from the southern United States to South America and in the warmer parts of the Old World including Australia; in many areas it is considered an invasive weed.
		Wandering Jew is widely used as an ornamental plant in gardens and borders, as a ground cover, hanging plant, or (particularly in colder areas) houseplant.
		Wandering Jew has applications as a livestock and poultry feed as it is fast-growing, resilient to disease, and tolerates shade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wandering_Jew_(plant) (870 words)

	Wandering Jew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When some interpreters see the "wandering Jew" as a metaphorical personification of the Jewish diaspora, the subtext that links the two is that the destruction of Jerusalem was in retribution for Jewish responsibility for the Crucifixion.
		Der Vanderner Yid (The Wandering Jew) was a Yiddish language film made in 1933 depicting the plight of the Jews in Nazi Germany.
		Hence, the Gypsies constant wandering and exclusion were explained by their betrayal of Jesus--much in the same way the exclusion and pograms against Jews were explained.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wandering_Jew (2516 words)

	Wandering Jew
		The Wandering Jew, also known as Ahasverus or Buttadaeus, was given the curse of immortality by Jesus Christ.
		The Middle Ages abound with sightings of the Wandering Jew, generally telling his story in turn for meager food and lodging, sometimes even undergoing tests of authenticity by local professors and academic figures.
		By the 19th century, sightings of the Wandering Jew were largely attributed to imposters and madmen.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/w/wandering_jew.html (330 words)

	THE WANDERING JEW - LoveToKnow Article on THE WANDERING JEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The two ideas combined in the story of the restless fugitive akin to Cain and wandering for ever are separately represented in the current names given to this figure in different countries.
		In the Turkish Spy the Wandering Jew is called Paul Marrane and is supposed to have suffered persecution at the hands of the Inquisition, which was mainly occupied in dealing with the Marranos, ie.
		The Wandering Jew has been regarded as a symbolic figure representing the wanderings and sufferings of his race.
	54.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JE/JEW_THE_WANDERING.htm (1724 words)

	Wandering Jew on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		WANDERING JEW [Wandering Jew] in literary and popular legend, a Jew who mocked or mistreated Jesus while he was on his way to the cross and who was condemned therefore to a life of wandering on earth until Judgment Day.
		Ultra orthodox Jews pray in front of Jewish men covering their heads with Talit, prayer shawls, during the traditional priest's blessing ceremony for Sukkot, the feast of the Tabernacles, at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem 20 October 2005.
		Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City during the celebration of the feast of the Tabernacles, known as Sukkot in Hebrew, 19 October 2005.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Wanderin.asp (840 words)

	JEW, THE WANDERING - Online Information article about JEW, THE WANDERING
		Cain and wandering for ever are separately represented in the current names given to this figure in different countries.
		Spanish writings the Wandering Jew is called Juan Espera en Dios, which gives a more hopeful turn to the legend.
		Swift derived his idea of the immortal Struldbrugs from the notion of the Wandering Jew.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /JEE_JUN/JEW_THE_WANDERING.html (2266 words)

	Wandering Jew - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Wandering Jew
		In medieval legend, a Jew named Ahasuerus, said to have insulted Jesus on his way to Calvary and to have been condemned to wander the world until the Second Coming.
		A wanderer am I, who have walked long at thy heels; always on the way, but without a goal, also without a home: so that verily, I lack little of being the eternally Wandering Jew, except that I am not eternal and not a Jew.
		Up under the wooden ceiling there were little half-windows with white curtains, and pots of geraniums and wandering Jew in the deep sills.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Wandering+Jew (216 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - WANDERING JEW: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The pretended existence of the Wandering Jew, who is stated to be met with from time to time in all of these countries, was eagerly seized upon amidst the religious disturbances caused by the Reformation, as furnishing an eye-witness of the crucifixion.
		The figure of the doomed sinner, forced to wander without the hope of rest in death till the millennium, impressed itself upon the popular imagination, and passed thence into literary art, mainly with reference to the seeming immortality of the wandering Jewish race.
		Hans Andersen made his "Ahasuerus" the Angel of Doubt, and was imitated by Heller in a poem on "The Wandering of Ahasuerus," which he afterward developed into three cantos.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=33&letter=W (919 words)

	The legend of the wandering Jew in Europe and in Romania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ethnonym ”Jew” was little known among the common people from those places, which probably accounts for the fact that the protagonist of the legend was named neither the ”Wandering Jew” nor the ”Eternal Jew”, but — as in Finland — the ”Shoemaker of Jerusalem”;.
		In the case of Transylvanian scholars of Romanian nationality, the condition of the ”wandering Jew”, oppressed and exiled out of his country, was perceived to be analogous with that of the Romanian inhabitant of Habsburg Transylvania.
		The ”strayed Jew, Ashaber,” (sic!) is tortured by the devil and forgiven by the angel, both sent by Jesus Christ: ”Heartless one, you have chased away the Son of God!” Jesus says onto him.
	www.unibuc.ro /eBooks/filologie/hebra/2-5.htm (3484 words)

	Archives \| January 30- February 5 2005 \| Yourish.com
		The Russians would know about this because even now, the Prosecutor General said he would not follow up on the charges because 19 of the 20 legislators withdrew their support from it—not because the charges were baseless and anti-Semitic.
		In 1948, there were 150,000 Jews in Iraq, 75,000 in Egypt, 100,000 in Iran, 30,000 in Syria, 20,000 in Lebanon, 38,000 in Libya, 105,000 in Tunisia, 55,000 in Yemen, and 140,000 in Algeria.
		Then the German parliament enacted a law that allowed generous Jewish immigration from Russian Jews fleeing persecution, and the population is now at 200,000, close to what it was before the Holocaust.
	www.yourish.com /archives/2005/jan30-feb5_2005.html (3738 words)

	Jew - Wiktionary
		The question of "who is a Jew" is the subject of much discussion in the Jewish community.
		The correct adjectival form is "Jewish"; the use of "Jew" as an adjective (as in "Jew lawyer" rather than "Jewish lawyer") is associated with bigotry.
		The use of "Jew" or "jew" as a verb (as in "to jew someone down", to bargain for a lower price) is generally seen as an extremely offensive expression based on stereotypes.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/jew (138 words)

	The Wandering Jew (1933/I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		No compelling reason is given for why this particular time and place should be the end of the Wandering Jew's journey." In fact, the Middle Ages segment is the second one; it is followed by the Renaissance segment and finally the Spanish Inquisition, in which the Jew is burned as a heretic.
		The end of another British film starring Veidt, Jew Suss, is similar; Suss in fact has a choice to declare himself not Jewish, since in fact his father was a local aristocrat, but he opts to die a Jew, representing the people he grew up with.
		Since Veidt in fact insisted on declaring he was a Jew on official German forms in the early 30s, although he wasn't (his wife was), his choice of two roles of Jewish martyrs was a pretty obvious political move.
	imdb.com /title/tt0024750 (571 words)

	The Wandering Jew
		Jews were indeed mysterious and a little sinister to me then.
		I was like some wandering asteroid which had been sucked into the orbit of a heavier planet.
		Jake and I called ourselves the 'Wandering Jews.' We were both divorced.
	www.jewishmag.com /50mag/wanderingjew/wanderingjew.htm (3463 words)

	Sandy Feather: Light levels are critical to Wandering Jew plants
		Wandering Jew plants perform best in very bright, indirect light, ideally from bright morning sun.
		Wandering Jews typically respond to low-light situations by losing their oldest leaves (those near the roots), and taking on a straggly appearance.
		In this case, you should begin to fertilize your Wandering Jew with a water-soluble houseplant fertilizer such as Peters 20-20-20, fish emulsion or Miracle-Gro to encourage and nourish new growth.
	www.post-gazette.com /homes/20030215quest0215fnp7.asp (895 words)

	Jewlicious » The Wandering Jew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the modern era alone The Wandering Jew was the title and theme for several films in early cinema, including one about Theodore Hertzl.
		Christ, in turn, told the insolent porter to wait for his return, that is, until the Second Coming…The Wandering Jew soon repented of his sins and was baptized Catholic.
		The Middle Ages abound with sightings of the Wandering Jew, generally telling his story in turn for meager food and lodging.
	www.jewlicious.com /?p=328 (878 words)

	Jewlicious » The Wandering Jew Plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tradescantia pallida or Setcreasea purpurea, commonly called the Wandering Jew is native to America and is found from the southern United States through South America; in many areas it is considered an invasive weed.
		The Green Wandering Jew with white flowers is a common and invasive weed in Australia.
		In New Zealand, the plant Tradescantia fluminensis is known as Wandering Jew.
	www.jewlicious.com /index.php?p=105 (630 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is the story of the Wandering Jew, a concoction that, to my astonishment, interprets Jewish triumph as punishment, Jewish endurance as victimization.
		In the medieval myth — and in its incarnation at the SoHo Playhouse — the Jew was a cobbler at the time of Jesus who witnessed the procession of men stumbling under their crosses on their way to Golgotha from the safety of his doorway, where he stood underneath his lintel.
		It's a one-man show — the sole character is a librarian of both timidity and bravura — and was originally performed in SoHo by an actor who stifled his energy under a misguided compulsion to convey the tics and tremors of hackneyed old age.
	www.forward.com /issues/2002/02.07.05/arts2.html (1129 words)

	Wandering Jew
		Mordechai, in turn, reminded her that she was also a Jew, that she could not hide in the palace, and that maybe she had been fated to win the heart of the king in order to avert this disaster for her people.
		His advisors, realising that Mordechai was a Jew, and seeing Haman's humiliation at the hand of his rival, suggested that maybe Haman had bitten off more than he could chew, and that there was something about the Jews which made them, generally, come out on top in the end.
		On the 15th, the Jews celebrated their victory with feasting, and Mordechai, who as leader of the people, proclaimed the festival which is still celebrated today, that on the 14th and 15th days of the 12th month, Jews should forever celebrate their deliverance from and victory over an enemy determined to destroy them.
	wanderingjew.co.uk (4763 words)

	The Wandering Jew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They say that it is in the air, always wandering about the world, without being able to rise higher or fall lower; and every day, on all the tamarind shrubs that it meets, it sees its body hanging and torn by the dogs and birds of prey.
		The Wandering Jew (as many Swiss call the Eternal Jew) came there once and said: "When I pass this way a second time there will be nothing but trees and rocks where you now see houses and streets.
		Unlike the Wandering Jew, who does not die because of a curse, the three Nephites' freedom from death is the result of a divine blessing.
	www.pitt.edu /~dash/type0777.html (1103 words)

	AskWhy! on The Wandering Jew - Christianity Revealed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The story of the eternal Jew really became popular in the seventeenth century when a pamphlet was printed in Leyden in 1602 alleging that the bishop of Schleswig had met the Wandering Jew at Hamburg in 1542.
		Legend also has it that Gipsies are condemned to wander the earth because, as Egyptians (the meaning of the word Gipsy), they refused to help the holy family in their flight into Egypt.
		The Wandering Jew was duly thus cursed to show that the resurrection the Christian could expect was something else.
	www.askwhy.co.uk /christianity/0720WanderingJew.html (1792 words)

	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
		Hence the presence of the Black Rock JCC on this bleached prehistoric lake bed of a desert called the “playa.” The “Black Rock JCC” is a nylon roof held up by four poles.
		Among the 40,000 attendees or “burners” at Burning Man, a few Jews shy of a dozen are the heartbeat of this Jewish community.
		Cohen connects the moral dimension of Burning Man to tikkun olam — that is, to why Jews must continue to explore wherever a light burns.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=14751 (584 words)

	The Wandering Jew FAQ
		The Wandering Jew is the main character in an absorbing myth of the Middle Ages which has persisted into the modern age.
		By the end of the thirteenth century, the Wandering Jew had taken on most of his key characteristics.
		This is the version recounted in the earliest extant mention of the Wandering Jew in English, dating from 1228, and found in Roger of Wendover's Flores Historiarum, the book of the chronicles of the Abbey of St. Albans.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/1720/wjfaq.htm (1732 words)

	The Wandering Jew
		As was the case 70 years ago, every Jew today is a target for our enemies, who shout from every soapbox and prove at every opportunity that their goal is the annihilation of the Jewish people.
		However, he also said some European countries insist that millions of innocent Jews were killed during World War II by Hitler, and asked why the Europeans don’t give part of their land to the Jews if they are correct.
		Over the past five years, the notion that there is something acceptable about murdering Jews and seeking to destroy Israel has met with increasing acceptance among large swathes of European society and the ranks of the international Left.
	wanderingjew.typepad.com /the_wandering_jew (7234 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Wandering Jew.
		(3) In Germany the Wandering Jew is associated with John B
		Salathiel ben Sadi, who appeared and disappeared towards the close of the sixteenth century, at Venice, in so sudden a manner as to attract the notice of all Europe.
		Croly in his novel called Salathiel, and Southey in his Curse of Kehama, trace the course of the Wandering Jew, but in utter violation of the general legends.
	www.bartleby.com /81/17261.html (447 words)

	Yasha the Wandering Jew by Allan May
		Or maybe he was completely unremarkable, just another curly-haired Jew boy in back of Hebrew class, saying the words but thinking only of the presents his bar mitzvah will bring.
		To me, Yasha Katzenberg was the ultimate example of the wandering Jew, going country to country, east to west, always on the other side of the glass, lost in the wilderness."
		After serving his prison sentence, wherever the wandering Jew, Jacob Katzenberg, wandered to, he kept it to himself.
	crimemagazine.com /wanderingjew.htm (1280 words)

	The Gardener's Forum: wandering jew
		The sun is shining so beautifully on my wandering jew, lighting the back purple color so it looks neon.
		I use to have a nice wandering jew then it splin a part and I had about 8 of then.
		I really like Wandering Jews--they are so colorful, with silver and purple stipes on the top of leaves, and bright purple on the underside.
	www.thegardenhelper.com /cgi-bin/ubb/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=27;t=000817;p=0 (127 words)

	- The Wandering Jew -
		Any botanist will tell you that the "Wandering Jew" is a unique species of plant which - when given minimal sustenance - will nevertheless spread and grow.
		The wanderings have, however, been the subject of some misunderstanding: They are often portrayed as a "shlep" from one place to another.
		In each place, the Jews were to accomplish a specific tikkun, a "spiritual repair." Just as the Israelites' leaving Egypt had eternal significance, so too the Jewish People met challenges at their 42 encampments!
	www.aish.com /torahportion/appel/-_The_Wandering_Jew_-.asp (630 words)

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