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	Gustav Meyrink's 'The Golem' reviewed on the official website of writer, Laura Hird
		Golem is a word employed in the jewish tradition to indicate an artificial creature, imbued with life through Cabbalistic magic or God’s intervention.
		The most famous legend of the golem is linked to rabbi Judah Loew who is said to have created a golem out of clay to protect the Jews community of the Prague ghetto during the sixteenth century.
		Meyrink’s expressionist writing style is fascinating in spite of — or because of — the fragmentary nature of the narrative.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/thegolem.html (679 words)

	ON THE GOLEM AS PROTECTOR
		The golem was also invariably the benevolent robot of the later Prague tradition and captured the imagination of writers active in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and German.
		Meyrink's book, notable for its detailed description and nightmare atmosphere, was a terrifying allegory about man's reduction to an automaton by the pressures of modern society.
		According to Leivick's stage directions, he visualized the golem as a giant with a fl curly beard, a dull stare and a fixed smile that was somehow on the verge of tears.
	www.fiu.edu /~weitzb/GOLEM-AS-PROTECTOR.htm (1641 words)

	Jewish Renaissance - Dummy's Guide To The Golem
		The Golem has to be immediately destroyed, and this is a metaphor for the desire to maintain the established religious order.
		By the 15th century, the Golem was considered to have become a defender of the oppressed Jewish population, rather than merely as the product of a creative master.
		It was not until after his death in 1609 that a story spread widely that the Maharal had created out of clay a homuncule (a human that alchemists were thought to have the power to create) to serve himself and to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto.
	www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk /golem.htm (1080 words)

	Practical Kabbalah: History of the Golem
		A golem, perhaps the best known of the Jewish legends, is an automaton, typically humanoid and typically male, created as the result of an intense, systematic, mystical meditation.
		The golem and its creation not explicitly mentioned or discussed in the Sefer Yetzira, yet this small volume is of immense importance to the Kabbalists (theoretical and practical), and it sets up the framework which makes the idea and potential of a golem possible.
		Commenting that the golem is not a miracle, monster, or natural, but something entirely apart, Moshe Idel writes, "It is an entity that serves the role of silent witness of the creativity inherent in the tools which served God and men in their creative endeavors."
	www.atomick.net /fayelevine/pk/golem01.shtml (1186 words)

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		When the Golem was no longer needed, Loew removed the parchment, returning the Golem to being a statue, and the statue was laid to rest in the attic of the synagogue.
		Meyrink found writing the novel almost as bewildering as it is for the reader to read it or the character to live it.
		Of the various re-tellings of the story of the Golem of Prague, this is certainly the most readable and the most enjoyable, though perhaps not the most faithful to its source material.
	www.geocities.com /markleeper/golem.htm (5780 words)

	MET's Past Productions: The Golem - Notes on the Play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		RABBI JUDAH LOEW (A.K.A. Thaddeus the priest is portrayed darkly in The Golem.
		The Yiddish theater tradition that produced The Golem was as vibrant as the community that it served.
		The Golem, Legends of the Ghetto of Prague (Chayim Bloch)
	www.met.com /golem/notes.html (2017 words)

	Gustav Meyrink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gustav Meyrink (January 19, 1868 – December 4, 1932) was an Austrian author, storyteller, dramatist, translator, banker and Buddhist, most famous for his novel The Golem.
		Meyrink's role in Austrian literature is similar to that of Poe in American literature.
		Meyrink was shocked by this dramatic coincidence and started to study the literature of the occult.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gustav_Meyrink (1070 words)

	Background on the Golem Legends
		In order to understand Golem by David Wisniewski it is useful to read some of the research and writings about this very old legend and the issues connected to it.
		This is a poster for Paul Wehener's lighthearted 1917 film, "The Golem and the Dancer"--an authentic myth that worked loose from its religious moorings to serve a variety of symbolic functions.
		Bloch, Hayim, The Golem; Legends of the Ghetto of Prague.
	www.scils.rutgers.edu /~kvander/golem/backgroundgolem.html (2239 words)

	The Golem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In theory, the Golem is supposed to protect the Jewish ghetto dwelling community from the impending disaster, and Rabbi Low works furiously against time to finish his creation before disaster strikes.
		The Rabbi intends to use the Golem as a demonstration of his power and his brilliance--and hopes that by doing so, the Jews will be allowed to stay in the city.
		the story is an old jewish legend of the "golem" a clay figure made by a rabbi to protect the jews of a polish getto during a time of percusion(sound a little like a call from the future) and how it is used by a bad man to get the things he wants.
	www.shadowdark.org /webstore/viewproduct.php?asin=B00006L90Y (942 words)

	Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Study of Meyrink novel and Levick poem that were used in the development of the text.
		The latter interpreted as allegorical tale of the rise of the third Reich, the former as precursor of the Holocaust.
		Meyrink's Golem - is 'born' in Prague, in a room with no doors, activated once every 33 years - this traces back older Jewish sources - to create a spirit figure which seeks materialisation.
	www.doo-cot.com /golem/marketing/education.html (1170 words)

	Golem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Similarly, golems are often used today in metaphor either as brainless lunks or as entities serving man under controlled conditions but hostile to him in others.
		In all Jewish kabbalistic descriptions of Golems, they are incapable of disobeying the one who created them, but in one version of the story, Rabbi Eliyahu of Chełm created a Golem that grew bigger and bigger until the rabbi was unable to kill it without trickery, whereupon it fell over its creator and crushed him.
		The golem became a creation of overambitious and overreaching mystics, who would inevitably be punished for their blasphemy, very similar to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the alchemical homunculus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Golem (1401 words)

	'Golem' wraps deeper issues in merriment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A staple of Jewish folklore, the golem is a soulless creature created out of dirt and given superhuman strength through sorcerous incantations.
		Meyrink's golem was the work of a Jewish rabbi in 16th century Prague, who created it to protect the city's Jews from persecution.
		What the Russian doesn't know is that Zavel, the actor who wrote the play and is cast as the golem's creator, lost his wife to Christian soldiers, who raped and murdered her.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/ae/articles/1029golem1029.html (733 words)

	Golem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Early on the notion developed that the main disability of the golem was its inability to speak.
		Having a golem servant was seen as the ultimate symbol of wisdom and holiness, and there are many tales of golems connected to prominent rabbis throughout the Middle Ages.
		Middle-earth; the name however is derived not from Golem, but rather from the throaty sound the character makes, beginning with a glottal stop (a throaty, almost swallowed "g").
	dks.thing.net /Golem.html (12797 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Books, Criticism & Writing > Gustav Meyrink- "The Golem"
		Golems rock also - I love the idea of a big lump of clay animated by a tablet with the name of GOD on it.
		Assuming it is the same golem, and as a side thread to that assumption, I hear Lowe's house was spared from being torn apart by the Nazis during their occupation of Prague on direct orders from a very superstitious Hitler.
		Apparently the attic - where golem is rumoured to reside in pieces - is still locked to this day, and the house has become a museum of Jewish mysticism.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/9205 (967 words)

	Amazon.com: The Golem (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series): Books: Gustav ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It tells the myth of the Golem, an artificial creature created in the XVI century by Rabbi Loew in the ghetto of Prague to protect the Jewish community from destruction and injustice, but the myth is told from a very original perspective.
		In Meyrink's novel, the Golem is used as a symbolic device, in an exploration of the problem of identity.
		Meyrink also introduces the mystic and cabbalist concept of the "secret of intercalation" (Ibbur), a combination of God's determinative and guiding hand and of man's freedom of choice and responsibility.
	www.amazon.com /Studies-Austrian-Literature-Culture-Translation/dp/1572410140 (1556 words)

	Golem, wie er in die Welt kam, Der (1920) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I had never seen the film before and was frankly amazed at the imagery in the sets and costumes and editing of the film.
		As far as the Golem's performance- this film is really a precursor to "Frankenstein" that Boris Karloff must have seen in its original release - there are so many similarites.
		Biggest Image - at the conclusion, the Golem is surrounded by a group of "blond" Aryan-looking children that clearly distinguish them from the ghetto children that we see earlier in the film.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0011237 (467 words)

	Amazon.com: The Golem (Dover Mystery, Detective, & Other Fiction): Books: Gustav Meyrink,Hugo Steiner-Prag,Madge ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Meyrink relates another version in which a magic charm is "placed behind it's teeth." However, in another twist of confused identity, one character in the novel learns that he has switch hats with someone during the day and finds Pernath's name in the hat's lining, possibly just where it may have pressed against the forehead.
		Meyrink's mysticism is always balanced with a portion of skepticism, giving his worldview a tension which holds valuable insight about the time in which he lived.
		Meyrink was really into the occult, including astral projection (when the soul, leaves the body and can sense and remember all that it sees in its distant journeys).
	www.amazon.com /Dover-Mystery-Detective-Other-Fiction/dp/0486250253 (2360 words)

	Kinoeye \| German horror: Paul Wegener's Der Golem
		The sequential interweaving of the Golem's creation and Miriam's involvement with the Knight suggests a parallelism between the monster and the woman as rebellious children figures of the Rabbi.
		The soulless Golem equally contrasts with the naturalised image of mother and child who are bathed in light and aligned with the Christian world.
		The Golem's monstrous urge for Miriam echoes both the consummated desire of the Christian Knight and the violent frustration of the Famulus which leads to Florian's destruction.
	www.kinoeye.org /03/11/gelbin11.php (3331 words)

	THE GOLEM. - MEYRINK GUSTAV & MIKE MITCHELL (INTRODUCTION),
		The Golem by Gustav Meyrink translated and with an Introduction by Mike Mitchell with twenty-five illustrations by Hugo-Steiner-Prag.
		The Golem is Gustav Meyrink’s masterly 1915 retelling of the legend of the blasphemous creation of an artificial man by Rabbi Loew in the Prague ghetto of the sixteenth century.
		In this brooding atmospheric story the monster terrorising the streets of Prague is inextricably bound up with the psyche of the people who live there.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/myt/88439.shtml (350 words)

	The Golem DVD
		Intended as a protector and avenger, the golem is twisted by the machinations of a lovelorn assistant and, like many a monster to come, runs riot, terrorizing guilty and innocent alike until a little girl innocently ends his rampage.
		Wegener's golem is an impressively solid figure, the Frankenstein monster with a slightly comical clay wig.
		At the time I had to go to the public library, and borrow an actual film reel, and watch it inside their film vault, because this was not only before the DVD, but even before the VCR became so prevalent.
	www.supermantv.net /B00006L90Y/The_Golem.html (704 words)

	Amazon.com: The Golem: DVD: Ernst Deutsch,Carl Ebert,Fritz Feld,Otto Gebühr,Max Kronert,Lothar Müthel,Loni Nest,Dore ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		THE GOLEM is one of those movies that many people have seen stills from or have read about but up until now have not the opportunity to see it as it was intended to be seen.
		The Golem is a large clay figure in the form of a man. This faithful servant of Rabbi Loew's possesses superhuman strength and seems invulnerable - daggers bend and break rather than penetrate its skin.
		It accompanies Rabbi Loew to the Emperor's palace on a mission to have the edict revoked, and the Golem is instrumental in accomplishing that goal.
	www.amazon.com /Golem-Ernst-Deutsch/dp/B00006L90Y (2532 words)

	Meyrink, Gustav - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		MEYRINK, GUSTAV [Meyrink, Gustav], 1868-1932, German author, b.
		A staff member of Simplicissimus from 1902, he became famous for his sketches, parodies, and comedies.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Meyrink, Gustav" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-meyrink.html (173 words)

	The Golem by Gustav Meyrink, published by Tartarus Press
		is Gustav Meyrink’s masterly 1915 retelling of the legend of the blasphemous creation of an artificial man by Rabbi Loew in the Prague ghetto of the sixteenth century.
		But Meyrink’s novel is much more than a variation on the Frankenstein or sorcerer’s apprentice theme.
		If you are an enthusiast of dark fiction and you missed this classical novel so far it's high time to read it: you'll find it weird, engrossing, subtly and deliciously distrurbing.
	homepages.pavilion.co.uk /users/tartarus/golem.htm (445 words)

	Golem (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Golem (klezmer band), a New York-based, self-styled "Eastern European folk-punk band" in the klezmer genre.
		The Golem (Meyrink), a 1915 novel by Gustav Meyrink.
		The Golem (Der Golem), a retelling of the legend of the golem by Nobel Prize-winning writer Isaac Bashevis Singer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Golem_(disambiguation) (325 words)

	Golem, Der (1915) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Plot Summary: In this version of the golem legend, the golem, a clay statue brought to life by Rabbi Loew in 16th...
		Known in the USA as "The Monster of Fate", it is considered a lost film.
		Golem, wie er in die Welt kam, Der (1920)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0004026 (298 words)

	EJP \| News \| France \| The monster of the Jewish ghetto
		In Hebrew, Golem means “shapeless mass." It was created by the magic art of Rabbi Judah Loew who is said to have created a Golem out of clay to protect the Jewish community of the Prague ghetto during the 16th century.
		The medieval legend is also mentioned in the Talmud where it is said that Adam was considered a Golem, a body without soul, for the first twelve hours of his existence.
		In 1915, Gustav Meyrink, one of the masters of European fantastic writing, based his book “The Golem” on the legend, setting his narrative in the 18th century.
	www.ejpress.org /article/7202 (509 words)

	dergolem
		The Golem is based on a Jewish folklore story by Gustav Meyrink and was released in 1914; a sequel Der Golem und die Tänzerin came out in 1917, the first sequel in movie history.
		This retelling of the Golem myth is the one film which has survived of the three and has become known as a landmark of early German expressionism.
		It is through the striking fl-and-white German expressionism photography of Karl Freund that the film displayed its unusual feel for the macabre and might be considered a precursor to the Frankenstein horror films and how horror films were to be made from now on.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/dergolem.htm (442 words)

	Golem
		The Jewish golem is probably the most famous of all legends.
		The golem of Prague is the focus of many golem books.
		The golem is suppose to move on its own- an independent automaton.
	emol.org /kabbalah/golem/index.html (630 words)

	The Golem (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Golem (original German name Der Golem, also known as The Monster of Fate) is a 1915 silent horror directed and written by Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen.
		The film is based on the book The Golem by Gustav Meyrink, who is also credited as a writer for the film.
		The dealer resurrects the golem to use him as a servant, but the golem falls in love with the dealer's wife.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Golem_(film) (350 words)

	Cigars and Gustave Meyrink
		And there's Meyrink's occultism, his fixation on the border between life and death, the mirroring.
		Meyrink's novel is clearly in some measure an allegorical presentation of an occult philosophy.
		Reading the chapter where Hillel talks of the structure of being as a question, I felt maybe Meyrink was in touch with a worthwhile discourse.
	www.necessaryprose.com /cigars.html (2080 words)

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