The Golem: the Story of a Legend
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Document Type
Book
Description
For Centuries, Jews have remembered the Golem, a creature of clay said to have been given life by the mystical incantations of the mysterious Maharal, Rabbi Yehuda Loew, leader of the Jewish community of 16-century Prague... In this beautiful book, Elie Wiesel has collected many of the legends associated with this enigmatic and eluisive figure and retold them as seen throughn the eyes of a wizened gravedigger who claims to have witnessed as a child the numerous miracles that legend attributes to the Golem.
Publication Date
1983
Publisher
Summit Books
City
New York
State
NY
Award
2007 Lifetime Achievement Award
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Fiction | History
Repository Citation
Wiesel , E. (1983). The Golem: the Story of a Legend. New York, NY: Summit Books.
