A ccording to Jewish folklore, in the late 16th-century the Czech city of Prague was threatened with antisemitic attacks. In response, Chief Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel created an early Jewish ...

The Golem of Brooklyn By Adam Mansbach One World, 272 pages, $18. No creature from Jewish folklore has made as sizable a literary dent as the Golem.

A 21st-century golem tackles US white nationalism in modern retelling of Jewish myth In darkly comic novel ‘The Golem of Brooklyn,’ author Adam Mansbach sets a nine-foot clay creature hurtling ...

In Jewish folklore, the Golem of Prague tells the story of a powerful being created by Rabbi Judah Loew in the late 16th century to protect his community. According to legend, ...

The golem I’ve been trying to understand is a figure from Jewish folklore, a giant humanoid being created of mud or clay and animated through secret incantations to defend the Jewish people in ...

Considered the Jewish Frankenstein, the Golem’s story is one of the most enduring legends from Jewish tradition, and has been the subject of numerous books and plays.

According to Jewish folklore, in the late 16th-century the Czech city of Prague was threatened with antisemitic attacks. In response, Chief Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel created an early Jewish ...

According to Jewish folklore, in the late 16th-century the Czech city of Prague was threatened with antisemitic attacks. In response, Chief Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel created an early Jewish ...