Golem - Jewish Museum Berlin
WEBJan 29, 2017 — Golem. A golem is a creature formed out of a lifeless substance such as dust or earth that is brought to life by ritual incantations and sequences of Hebrew letters. The golem, brought into being by a human creator, becomes a helper, a companion, or a rescuer of an imperiled Jewish community. In many golem stories, the creature runs …
Golem - Jewish Museum Berlin
WEBThe golem assumes the role of an assistant on a specific mission. In these stories, the soulless, artificial helper often runs amok and becomes a danger to its creator. Golem Souvenir from Prague, 2015; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe. Today, we encounter the golem in many media, from visual art to film to computer games.
The Golem in Berlin - Jewish Museum Berlin
WEBThe golem as a doppelgänger and a symbol of the eternal human conflict between reason and unreason, intellect and impulse, is addressed in Gustav Meyrink’s still-popular novel The Golem (1915). And the terrifying creation of Frankenstein’s monster in literature, cinema, and art is also based on the golem legend.
GOLEM - Jewish Museum Berlin
WEBA golem is a creature formed out of a lifeless substance such as dust or earth that is brought to life by ritual incantations and sequences of Hebrew letters. The golem, brought into being by a human creator, becomes a helper, a companion, or a rescuer of an imperiled Jewish community. In many golem stories, the creature runs amok and the golem ...
Golem - Jewish Museum Berlin
WEBCentral to the golem legend is the human desire to create, together with a range of themes including creativity, control, power, and salvation. The exhibition demonstrates the thematic richness of the material, as is apparent from medieval manuscripts, many-layered narratives, and works of art from the last two hundred years.
Golem Magic - Jewish Museum Berlin
WEBThe Golem in Berlin: Introduction by Peter Schäfer. Chapter 1. The Golem Lives On: Introduction by Martina Lüdicke. My Light is Your Life: Text by Anna Dorothea Ludewig. Avatars: Text by Louisa Hall. The Secret of the Cyborgs: Text by Caspar Battegay. Chapter 2. Jewish Mysticism: Introduction by Emily D. Bilski.
GOLEM: Opening of the major exhibition at the ... - Jewish …
WEBSep 23, 2016 — The golem figure is frequently associated with the many-faceted motif of the doppelgänger: the golem as an alter ego that gives form to hidden longings. Disturbing doppelgänger motifs from robot laboratories are presented in this chapter, including Yves Gellie’s series of large-format photographs showing the Japanese scientist Hiroshi ...
From the Golem-Talmud | Jewish Museum Berlin
WEBJoshua Cohen is an American writer. He is a regular contributor for Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and The London Review of Books. From 2001 until 2007 he was correspondant for the Jewish Daily Forward’s English edition, based in Berlin. His latest novel Book of Numbers was published in 2015. Golem.
Golem and Mirjam - Jewish Museum Berlin
WEBThe golem, therefore, functions as a narrative tool to restore the patriarchal order and its prescribed boundaries between Christians and Jews. Wegener’s image of the monster bearing the woman would be borrowed time and again as a staple for the racialized love dramas of 1930s Hollywood horror film, from Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931) to ...
GOLEM - Jewish Museum Berlin
WEBGOLEM. 184 pages with 100 color illustrations. Kerber Verlag. Bielefeld and Berlin 2016. ISBN: 978-3-7356-0277-0. available in German only. Editors Emily D. Bilski and Martina Lüdicke. for the Jewish Museums Berlin. Contributing Writers Isaac Asimov, Caspar Battegay, Jorge Luis Borges, Ronit Chacham, Joshua Cohen, Esther Dischereit, Louisa ...