Tuli Kupferberg Where is My Wandering Jew?

Some time in the mid or late 1990's, before it's release on the Fugs Final CD part 1, Tuli performed "Where is My Wandering Jew?" on Coca Crystal's Manhattan public access TV show, "If I Can't Dance You Can Keep Your Revolution." Charming hostess Coca introduces Tuli who introduces the song and explains some of the references. "The Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian folklore whose legend began to spread in Europe in the thirteenth century. The original legend concerns a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion and was then cursed to walk the earth until the Second Coming. The exact nature of the wanderer's indiscretion varies in different versions of the tale, as do aspects of his character; sometimes he is said to be a shoemaker or other tradesman, sometimes he is the doorman at Pontius Pilate's estate."(Wikipedia)

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[erploco]

R.I.P. Tuli

[funkcutter]

my dad always said he was this person - the original wandering jew - as i lived in 17 different houses and motorhomes before i left home - they kept wandering!

[theoriginaljonnyox]

"Where is the song I once called my life?"