The Golem Returns: From German Romantic Literature to Global Jewish Culture, 1808-2008 by Cathy Gelbin

The Golem Returns: From German Romantic Literature to Global Jewish Culture, 1808-2008

Cathy Gelbin

224 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

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The Hulk, Superman, the Terminator; they are all modern popular culture echoes of the golem, that mystical, artificial man of legend, a sort of friendly Jewish version of Frankenstein's monster. By focusing on the golem in key literary texts and f...

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