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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
The Golem in Berlin: Introduction by Peter Schäfer. Chapter 1. The Golem Lives On: Introduction by Martina Lüdicke. My Light is Your Life: Text by Anna Dorothea Ludewig. Avatars: Text by Louisa Hall. The Secret of the Cyborgs: Text by Caspar Battegay. Chapter 2. Jewish Mysticism: Introduction by Emily D. Bilski.
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 ...
The golem, a character from Jewish mythology, is currently present in an interesting exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin. But not only there. Guest article by Roberto Giardina, www.ildeutschitalia.com In the foyer of the Museum for Communication, three robots – reminiscent of chess figures – are roaming around. They talk to the people walking up …
