Wow, I hate how pedantic twitter makes me but... Mary Shelley's father and her husband both wrote stories about the Wandering Jewhttps://twitter.com/Teaparty_man/status/931554961393111041 …
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i.e., a jewish character cursed with immortality Mary Shelley wrote a novel about a man cursed by his quest for immortality, who creates a monster who despairs of his accursed life
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"Um his mother is from a family of arrogant merchants and his name is Frank.. um, Frankenberg... no Frankenstein"
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I don't want to get into a whole thing about vampires and jews and the blood-"libel" but n.b. Manfred, composed same night as Frankenstein, was one of most-translated works into Yiddish
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