Might a golem help make a minyan? Over 300 years ago, a rabbi considered the question, now cited in countless discussions ...

One of the first stories connecting Loew to a golem appears in “Galerie der Sippurim,” an 1847 collection of Jewish tales published in Prague. In the book, Loew creates a clay servant using a ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have discovered a 1,700-year-old oil lamp decorated with rare Jewish artwork, including a unique ...

the open-source Jewish text library. The film will update the 16th century narrative of the golem of Prague, where Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel created an anthropomorphic golem out of clay or mud ...

Directed by Paul Wegener and Carl Boese, the 1920 film is set in the 16th-century Jewish ghetto of Prague, where Rabbi Low (Albert Streinruck) creates a clay Golem (played by Wegener) to protect ...

Two men examine a clay statue (the Golem), planning to bring it to life ... a career in real estate and — gasp! — marry a non-Jewish woman named Claire (Emily Wiseman). Now, as the couple ...