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

The story of the Golem, the artificial human/monster who protects a threatened Jewish community but then gets out of control, has roots in the Bible, Talmud, Kabbalah, and Yiddish literature. In the ...

One part of the exhibit will trace the development of the Prague ghetto and the Jewish cemetery during the rabbi’s lifetime. An interactive installation, “Golem,” by the artist Petr Nikl ...

The first horror movie franchise, he points out, centered on the Jewish Golem monster and was produced in the 1910s, years before “Nosferatu,” the well-known silent vampire film from 1922.

Zede lived to be about 90. A few years before he died in 1986, he made a speech for his birthday, which coindiced with Thanksgiving (as a child I thought it was a Jewish holiday). Listing the stages ...

Diana Pinto already had referred to this in her essay "Toward A New European Jewish Identity," in GOLEM 1/1999: "The third and most difficult challenge is the Jewish Space: how should Jews approach ...

Park is a dedicated student of cinema looking to bring attention to the fact that one of the first mainstream horror films was 1915’s The Golem, which told a story rooted in centuries of Jewish ...