The Golem is a legendary creature made of clay who comes to life through holy Hebrew words to protect the persecuted Jewish villagers. Learn the true history of Rabbi Yehuda Loew ben Bezalel, the Maharal of Prague who befriended Emperor Rudolph II, Johannes Kepler and whose Kabbalistic spiritual teachings are still studied 400 years later.
Plus learn about Rabbi Eliyahu Baal Shem, credited with creating the first Golem, silent, lumbering and super-strong, who turns on his master.
Also, the dramatic true story of the Israeli community of Kerem Maharal, named after the famed rabbi and created by Czech Holocaust survivors who fought in Israel’s War of Independence.
And, the Golem of Rehovot, one of Israel’s first computers created in the 1960s at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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NOTES:
Biography of Shimshon Clara Shecht, the Czech Brigade and Kerem Marahal
Golem - from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia
The Golem in the Attic - Moment Magazine
The Enigmatic Golem of Prague: Revealing a Legendary Mystery - Prague.org
Golem: Mythical Creature or Historical Fact? - Chabad.org
The Golem of Old Prague by Michael Rosen - full text
The Golem: Legends of the Ghetto of Prague by Chajim Bloch - full text, translated from 1919 German edition
Altneuschul (Old New Synagogue) - official website
Moshav Kerem Maharal - official website
Golem - Israel’s first computer from 1963 at Weizmann Institute
The Golem of Tel Aviv - Kerem House musical
The Truth about the Golem and the Maharal of Prague