Wandering Jew

On Thursday, the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper published a piece entitled "The Eternal Netanyahu," making an apparent reference to Fritz Hippler's anti-Semitic 1940 propaganda film "The Eternal Jew."

Besides being the head of the Nazi film department, Hippler was the director of the infamous anti-Semitic "documentary" The Eternal Jew (1940).

Under the title "The Eternal Jew," Kissinger wrote the following stark and horrifying description of what he saw:

In contrast, they see Jews and Jewish powers everywhere: often borrowing heavily from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The International Jew, and The Eternal Jew, they cast them at once as parasites and masterminds, unassimilable outsiders and inside operatives, a flawed people and a transhistorical force, and tribal and cosmopolitan.

"The eternal Jew" depicts a grotesquely animated Jew with a long, bent nose who informs on his brethren in return for a coin tossed from his European master.

First, an animated short clip entitled "The Eternal Jew" posted to YouTube by an account of West Bank settlers showed a "leftist Jew", drawn in anti-Semitic caricature style, being encouraged by his European master, "Mr Sturmer", to provide him with information that will help damaging Israel.

False myths such as The Eternal Jew or the "baby-stealing Roma" should haunt our political class and teach it to beware of the risks of such opportunism.

of Christ (1988), The Dark Knight (2008), and the Nazi propaganda film Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew, 1940).

Prior to his case studies, Schwartz describes how in the first century after Spinoza's death, as the greater Jewish community remained virtually silent, his Jewishness was being constructed by Gentile commentators along two trajectories: ex-Jew and eternal Jew. The second chapter takes up the breach of Jewish observance of the ban on discussing Spinoza by the either usual contender for the title "first modern Jew," Moses Mendelssohn.

Lea wrote a thoughtful book on Mahler, Gustav Mahler-Man on the Margin, in which he called him "the Eternal Jew." Lea believes that Mahler's deep ambivalence on being Jewish was symptomatic of the assimilated Jew of the era who wanted to get ahead but found Judaism standing in the way.

Der Ewige Jude--the Eternal Jew as the Germans called him, "was as likely to turn up in a third-rate novella as in a satirical cartoon or political diatribe."