This story, written by William Austin in New England 1824, is an allegory for the "Wandering Jew", banished from his homeland, forever persecuted and in exile, expelled from country to country for 2 thousand years, subjected to anti semitism. Many metaphors are used, such as Boston as a metaphor for Jerusalem and Zion, certain scenes suggest the blood libels and other persecutions, some people represent the righteous Gentiles. Although it has poor sound quality and is difficult to follow, it is worth listening all the way to the end, the heart wrenching end, with its allusions to the destruction of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, the destruction of Zion, how prescient of the author, in 1824, he foreshadowed, but did not know it, the ultimate STORM, over 100 years later, the rise of Nazism, Fascism, and the Holocaust! The Storm devouring. And then a few years after that, that the author could never have imagined- the State of Israel! A Homeland for the Wandering Jew. How amazing that on Mystery Theater we are introduced to this early American Literary genius, an antecedent of Nathaniel Hawthorne. And this week is the 70 anniversary of the end of the Holocaust from Auschwitz.