The Wandering Jew

Stefan Heym

1981

Leuchtentrager sets down his cup. “And there’s no end in sight to the confusion,” he says as though his mind were seriously troubled by this, “they say the Wandering Jew was seen again, not far from Wittenberg.”

Young Eitzen promptly remembers the steps during the night in that empty chamber of the Swan at Leipzig, but that was long ago, and Doctor…

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Creator Bio

Stefan Heym

1913–2001

Stefan Heym, whose name was a pseudonym for Helmut Fleig, was born in Germany, spent the prewar years in Czechoslovakia, and lived in the United States from 1935 until 1952, where during World War II he worked for a psychological warfare military unit. He resettled in East Germany and became a journalist and novelist. His works, in English and German, received the Jerusalem Prize, the Pease Medal of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the Heinrich Mann Prize, and the National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class.

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