Wandering Jew

European Christian legendary figure of a Jew who taunted Jesus and was cursed to immortally walk the Earth until the Second Coming

Intangible legendary_figure Q464017

Facts

6 properties

Instance of: legendary figure
Sex or gender: male^[3]
Religion or worldview: Judaism^[2]
Depicts Iconclass notation: 82A(AHASVERUS)^[5]
Described by source: Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Otto's encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Bodláčí z Parnassu, The New Student's Reference Work^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]
Given name: Ahasuerus^[4]

🏷️ Also known as

en The Eternal Jew en The Wandering Jew en Wandering Jew en Ahasuerus en Cartaphilus en Eternal Jew en Ewige Jude en Ahasver ar اليهودي التائه cs Věčný Žid cs Cartaphilus da Ahasver da Den Evige Jøde de Ahasverus de Ahasver de Ewiger Jude de Wandernder Jude de Cartaphyllus de Der ewige Jude el Περιπλανώμενος Ιουδαίος

🔖 Identifiers · 37

VIAF cluster ID: 215212712
Library of Congress authority ID: sh85145083
GND ID: 4140424-5
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 16250178k
British Museum person or institution ID: 209411
Concise Literary Encyclopedia ID: 1-0731
De Agostini ID: Ebrèo+errante
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID: wandering_jew
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: biography/Cartaphilus, topic/wandering-Jew
Encyclopædia Universalis ID: mythe-du-juif-errant
Freebase ID: /m/0m1wx
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017): 1911454

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Hanslick Online person ID: 3099
Harper's tag: wandering-jew
Iconclass notation: 82A(AHASVERUS)
IdRef ID: 150294840
Jewish Encyclopedia ID: 14773
Jewish Encyclopedia ID (Russian): 10906
Krugosvet article (archived): religiya/vechnyi-zhid
KulturNav-ID: f0700311-321d-47e7-840f-b29abb45e1c3
Larousse ID: divers/Ahasvérus/104290
Lex ID: Ahasverus, Den_Evige_Jøde
McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID: J/jew-the-wandering
Museum-digital tag ID: 68694
NL CR AUT ID: jo2016908730
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007548855005171
National Library of Poland MMS ID: 9810688428805606
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0): XX5195377
Proleksis enciklopedija ID: 6474
Quora topic ID: Wandering-Jew-1
SVKKL authority ID: 0318783-Ahasver
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID: wandering_jew
Topic's main category: Category:Wandering Jew
Treccani ID: ebreo-errante
Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID: ebreo-errante
Wellcome Collection concept ID: gyu3geb8
Yale LUX ID: person/8b49457a-e4b2-4ec0-b2fe-6aad0c2ed164

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🔗 Connections

Described by source 4

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron

Named after 1

The Eternal Jew

Religion or worldview 1

Judaism

Sex or gender 1

male

Topic's main category 1

Category:Wandering Jew

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Category:Wandering Jew

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Summary

Wandering Jew is a legendary figure^[1].

Body

Influence

Things named for Wandering Jew include The Eternal Jew^[15], a film^[16], directed by Fritz Hippler^[17].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include The Eternal Jew^[15], a film^[16], directed by Fritz Hippler^[17].

References

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BibTeX

@misc{4ortxyz_wandering-jew_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Wandering Jew}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/wandering-jew}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-30}}

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

14w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Jewish Encyclopedia ID → 14773

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Jewish Encyclopedia ID: 14773, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167485413|WANDERING JEW (#167485413)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclope"
20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗

SVKKL authority ID → 0318783-Ahasver

"/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0318783-Ahasver, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Instance of → —

Sex or gender → male

Religion or worldview → Judaism

Given name → Ahasuerus

+ 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007548855005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"

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