Author :
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9783934774469
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The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague
Yehudah Yudl Rozenberg
Author : Yehudah Yudl Rozenberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 030013472X
This collection of interrelated stories about a sixteenth-century Prague rabbi and the golem he created became an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1909. So widely popular and influential was Yudl Rosenberg's book, it is no exaggeration to claim that the author transformed the centuries-old understanding of the creature of clay and single-handedly created the myth of the golem as protector of the Jewish people during times of persecution. In addition to translating Rosenberg's classic golem story into English for the first time, Curt Leviant also offers an introduction in which he sets Rosenberg's writing in historical context and discusses the golem legend before and after Rosenberg's contributions. Generous annotations are provided for the curious reader. The book is full of adventures, surprises, romance, suspense, mysticism, Jewish pride, and storytelling at its best. The Chief Rabbi of Prague, known as the Maharal, brings the golem Yossele to life to help the Jews fight false accusations of ritual murder-the infamous blood libel. More human, more capable, and more reliable as a protector than any golem imagined before, Rosenberg's Golem irrevocably changed one of the most widely influential icons of Jewish folklore.
The Golem of Prague
Irène Cohen-Janca
Author : Irène Cohen-Janca
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Golem
ISBN : 9781554518883
This retelling of an ancient Jewish legend will capture a new audience with its powerful illustrations and timeless text.
The Golem of Hollywood
Jonathan Kellerman
Author : Jonathan Kellerman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 110159716X
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Alex Delaware novels and the award-winning #1 international bestselling author of The Genius combine their extraordinary talents for one of the most unusual—and unnerving—thrillers of the year. Detective Jacob Lev has awakened dazed and confused: it appears he picked up a woman the night before, but can’t remember anything about it. And then suddenly, she’s gone. Not long after, he’s dispatched to a murder scene in a house in the Hollywood hills. There is no body, only a head. And seared into a kitchen counter is a message: the Hebrew word for justice. Lev is about to embark on an odyssey—through Los Angeles, London, and Prague, through the labyrinthine mysteries of a grotesque ancient legend, and most of all, through himself. All that he has believed to be true will be upended. And not only his world, but the world itself, will be changed.
Golem
Jan Kruta
Author : Jan Kruta
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Golem
ISBN : 9788023882735
Prague is a city made for fairy tales. And some fairy tales could never exist anywhere else. -- Publisher description
The Golem Redux
Elizabeth R. Baer
Author : Elizabeth R. Baer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0814336272
Traces the history of the golem legend and its appropriations in German texts and film as well as in post-Holocaust Jewish-American fiction, comics, graphic novels, and television. First mentioned in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible, the golem is a character in an astonishing number of post-Holocaust Jewish-American novels and has served as inspiration for such varied figures as Mary Shelley’s monster in her novel Frankenstein, a frightening character in the television series The X-Files, and comic book figures such as Superman and the Hulk. In The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction, author Elizabeth R. Baer introduces readers to these varied representations of the golem and traces the history of the golem legend across modern pre- and post-Holocaust culture. In five chapters, The Golem Redux examines the different purposes for which the golem has been used in literature and what makes the golem the ultimate text and intertext for modern Jewish writers. Baer begins by introducing several early manifestations of the golem legend, including texts from the third and fourth centuries and from the medieval period; Prague’s golem legend, which is attributed to the Maharal, Rabbi Judah Loew; the history of the Josefov, the Jewish ghetto in Prague, the site of the golem legend; and versions of the legend by Yudl Rosenberg and Chayim Bloch, which informed and influenced modern intertexts. In the chapters that follow, Baer traces the golem first in pre-Holocaust Austrian and German literature and film and later in post-Holocaust American literature and popular culture, arguing that the golem has been deployed very differently in these two contexts. Where prewar German and Austrian contexts used the golem as a signifier of Jewish otherness to underscore growing anti-Semitic cultural feelings, post-Holocaust American texts use the golem to depict the historical tragedy of the Holocaust and to imagine alternatives to it. In this section, Baer explores traditional retellings by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Elie Wiesel, the considerable legacy of the golem in comics, Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and, finally, "Golems to the Rescue" in twentieth- and twenty-first-century works of film and literature, including those by Cynthia Ozick, Thane Rosenbaum, and Daniel Handler. By placing the Holocaust at the center of her discussion, Baer illustrates how the golem works as a self-conscious intertextual character who affirms the value of imagination and story in Jewish tradition. Students and teachers of Jewish literature and cultural history, film studies, and graphic novels will appreciate Baer’s pioneering and thought-provoking volume.
The Golem of Prague
T. Kuperman
Author : T. Kuperman
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Golem
ISBN : 9781422605240
The Maharal of Prague brings a golem to life to help protect the 16th century Jewish community of Prague.
Golem Song
Marc Estrin
Author : Marc Estrin
Publisher : Unbridled Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1936071940
By some incalculable force of human attraction, Alan Krieger has two lovers. A man of his girth and compulsion, a man who cannot stop talking and who believes the world to be completely irrational, should not take one companion for granted, much less two. Women who can tolerate his anger, his obsessions, and his antic clowning all at the same time are not easy to come by. But when the thought arises in Alan that he’s been “chosen” to deliver Jewish America from the threat of Anti-Semitism, then all his connections to reality fall away, including those to his lovers and his family. Recalling the folktale of the Golem—the Frankensteinian giant of clay that saved the Jews in 16th Century Prague—Alan lays out a plan of attack and then sets to making the most outrageous of preparations in the culture wars, in New York City at the turn of the millennium. Like each of the acclaimed Estrin novels that have preceded it, Golem Song is an allusive, manic, and wildly comic approach to some of the most serious and difficult cultural questions of our time.
The Golem
Harry M. Collins
Author : Harry M. Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 110739449X
Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch liken science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, powerful yet potentially dangerous, a gentle, helpful creature that may yet run amok at any moment. Through a series of intriguing case studies the authors debunk the traditional view that science is the straightforward result of competent theorisation, observation and experimentation. The very well-received first edition generated much debate, reflected in a substantial new Afterword in this second edition, which seeks to place the book in what have become known as 'the science wars'.
The Golem, how He Came Into the World
Maya Barzilai
Author : Maya Barzilai
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Golem (Motion picture : 1920).
ISBN : 1640140301
Provides an aesthetic and historical overview of and new critical insights into Paul Wegener's great 1920 film, recognized at the time as a breakthrough in German cinema.