THE WANDERING JEW AT THE SALPETRIERE. 527 



he received a certain 



kind of instruction. 



Urged by his supe- 

 riors to renounce the 



Jewish religion, he 



struggled long before 



deciding to deny the 



faith of his fathers ; 



feeling that he was 



in danger of yield- 

 ing, he ran away and 



left Russia. He was 



then fifteen or sixteen 



years old, and had 



no trade. From that 



time on he wandered 



from one country to 



another, without any 



fixed purpose. He 



married in Buda- 



Pesth, and lived there 



for some time, and 



had three children 



there. The sojourn 



was longer than 



suited his disposition, and he was continually troubled with the 



desire to travel. He 

 took his family to 

 Jerusalem, and left 

 them there while he 

 traveled over the 

 world. Every five 

 years he returned 

 from his pilgrimage, 

 visited his family for 

 a few days, and then 

 turned toward new 

 countries. The mo- 

 tive of these perpet- 

 ual journeys from 

 place to place, he said, 

 " was to find a rem- 

 edy for a malady from 

 which I have sufi:ered 



Fig. 3. True Portrait of the Wandering Jew as he r,,'.^^/^ T ^r^^^. (-, *- 



A A no n-oi since i was twenty- 



WAS SEEN PASSING THROUGH AviGNON, ApRIL 22, 1784. ' 



(Sketch taken at the Bibliotheque Nationale.) five years old, which 



Fig. 2. The Wandering Jew, from the oldest known cn- 

 gravinc;. (Munich Library.) (Keproduced by Champ- 

 iieury.) 



