Der Golem/The Golem
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Golem. A golem is a creature formed out of a lifeless substance such as dust or earth that is brought to life by ritual incantations and sequences of Hebrew letters. The golem, brought into being by a human creator, becomes a helper, a companion, or a rescuer of an imperiled Jewish community. In many golem stories, the creature runs amok and ...
The golem assumes the role of an assistant on a specific mission. In these stories, the soulless, artificial helper often runs amok and becomes a danger to its creator. Golem Souvenir from Prague, 2015; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe. Today, we encounter the golem in many media, from visual art to film to computer games.
The golem as a doppelgänger and a symbol of the eternal human conflict between reason and unreason, intellect and impulse, is addressed in Gustav Meyrink’s still-popular novel The Golem (1915). And the terrifying creation of Frankenstein’s monster in literature, cinema, and art is also based on the golem legend.
A golem is a creature formed out of a lifeless substance such as dust or earth that is brought to life by ritual incantations and sequences of Hebrew letters. The golem, brought into being by a human creator, becomes a helper, a companion, or a rescuer of an imperiled Jewish community. In many golem stories, the creature runs amok and the golem ...
Central to the golem legend is the human desire to create, together with a range of themes including creativity, control, power, and salvation. The exhibition demonstrates the thematic richness of the material, as is apparent from medieval manuscripts, many-layered narratives, and works of art from the last two hundred years.
Sep 23, 2016 · Today, September 23, the Jewish Museum Berlin opens a major exhibition about the golem. This most famous of Jewish legendary figures has inspired generations of artists and authors right up to the present day. The exhibition presents the golem from its creation in a Jewish mystical ritual to its presence in popular storytelling.
Joshua Cohen is an American writer. He is a regular contributor for Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and The London Review of Books. From 2001 until 2007 he was correspondant for the Jewish Daily Forward’s English edition, based in Berlin. His latest novel Book of Numbers was published in 2015. Golem.
The golem, therefore, functions as a narrative tool to restore the patriarchal order and its prescribed boundaries between Christians and Jews. Wegener’s image of the monster bearing the woman would be borrowed time and again as a staple for the racialized love dramas of 1930s Hollywood horror film, from Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931) to Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s King ...
Golem. Homunkuli, Cyborgs, Roboter, Androide. Der Mythos vom Menschen, der künstliches Leben erschaffen kann, stand im Mittelpunkt einer großen Themenausstellung über den Golem im Jüdischen Museum Berlin. Bis heute inspiriert die prominenteste jüdische Legendenfigur Generationen von Künstler*innen und Autor*innen.
GOLEM. 184 pages with 100 color illustrations. Kerber Verlag. Bielefeld and Berlin 2016. ISBN: 978-3-7356-0277-0. available in German only. Editors Emily D. Bilski and Martina Lüdicke. for the Jewish Museums Berlin. Contributing Writers Isaac Asimov, Caspar Battegay, Jorge Luis Borges, Ronit Chacham, Joshua Cohen, Esther Dischereit, Louisa ...
