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The Golem: Man of Earth: A play in two acts based on historical events, a medieval Jewish legend, kabbalah, and the Yiddish dramatic poem by H. Leivick, Granite Hills Press, 2007.
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Golem and Earth
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Golem and play
( Rossum's Universal Robots ), Karel Čapek's 1921 play which coined the term robot ; the play was written in Prague and while Capek denied that he modeled the robot after the Golem, there are many similarities in the plot.
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Famous plays of this second golden era were The Dybbuk ( 1919 ), by S. Ansky, considered a revolutionary play in both Yiddish and mainstream theatre, The Golem by H. Leivick ( 1888 – 1962 ), as well as the plays of Sholem Aleichem.
Ernest Joselovitz wrote a play about the Mogulesko troupe, Vilna's Got a Golem, set in Vilna, Lithuania, during the pogroms of 1899.
Golem and two
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This was followed by two different creative teams producing three stories of The Golem in four issues (# 174-177 ), the second of these a fill-in monster-reprint issue.
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Golem and based
The episode " Kaddish ", from the fourth season of the X-Files, references the Sefer Yetzirah in a story based on the tale of Rabbi Loew and the Golem of Prague.
The libretto of his first opera, Golem, based on the Jewish legend of Golem, was written by the composer in collaboration with Pierre Audi, who commissioned and directed the work for the 1989 Almeida Festival.
A stage version of The Golem based on Leivick's poem has recently been published by the American playwright Howard Rubenstein and premiered at the Penn Theatre, San Diego.
They are based on the Golem Soldiers in Zyuranger.
Golem and on
Rabbi Yaakov Emden ( d. 1776 ) elaborated on the story in a book published in 1748: " As an aside, I ’ ll mention here what I heard from my father ’ s holy mouth regarding the Golem created by his ancestor, the Gaon R. Eliyahu Ba ’ al Shem of blessed memory.
Nonetheless, while he was engaged in extracting the Holy Name from him, the Golem injured him, scarring him on the face.
Rabbi Chaim Noach Levin also wrote in his notes on Megillas Yuchsin that he heard directly from Rabbi Yosef Shaul Halevi, the head of the Rabbinical court of Lemberg, that when he wanted to go see the remains of the Golem, the sexton of the Alt-Neu Shul said that Rabbi Yechezkel Landau had advised against going up to the attic after he himself had gone up.
According to John Neubauer, the first writers on the Prague Golem were:
The Vilna Gaon wrote an extensive commentary on the Sefer Yetzira, Kol HaTor, in which it is said that he had tried to create a Golem to fight the power of evil at the Gates of Jerusalem.
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* Wiener won the 1965 U. S. National Book Award in Science, Philosophy and Religion for God & Golem, Inc .: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion.
With the exception of the curse fiends and the child Surprise Golem ( Daughter of Rapunzel and Grundy Golem ), these abilities never repeat exactly in individuals throughout the entire history of Xanth ( although nearly identical talents show up on occasion.
God & Golem, Inc .: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion is a book written by MIT cybernetician Norbert Wiener and published by MIT Press in 1964.
God and Golem presents Wiener's ideas on machine learning, machine reproduction, and the place of machines in society, with some religious context.
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" Aemeth " or " Emeth " is Hebrew for " truth "; the same word was written on the forehead of a Golem in Jewish folklore by magicians who legendarily animated these beings.
The recording has now been re-released on the NMC label, and there have been six further productions of Golem since 1989: Opera Omaha, 1990 ; Northern Stage ( UK Arts Council / Contemporary Music Network Tour ), 1991 ; Theater Dortmund, 1994 ; Aspen Festival, 2000 ; Neue Operbühne Berlin 2001 ; Opéra de Rennes and Angers Nantes Opéra, 2006.
Its main theme is the influence of Western movies such as Der Golem, Nosferatu and Dracula on Hedayat.
Bruno and Whisper then get away on the Appellaxian Golem.
His first, Der Rubin ( 1893 ) was an oriental fantasy ; Die Abreise ( 1898 ), which established him as an opera composer in Germany, was a one-act domestic comedy ; Kain ( 1900 ) was a setting of the biblical story ; and one of his last operas, Der Golem, was on a traditional Jewish theme.
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Golem and medieval
The idea of an artifact made conscious is an ancient theme of mythology, appearing for example in the Greek myth of Pygmalion, who carved a statue that was magically brought to life, and in medieval Jewish stories of the Golem, a magically animated homunculus built of clay.
Golem and Jewish
In Jewish lore, blood libels were the impetus for the creation of the Golem of Prague by Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel in the 16th century.
To protect the Jewish community, the rabbi constructed the Golem out of clay from the banks of the Vltava river, and brought it to life through rituals and Hebrew incantations.
Cathy Gelbin finds an earlier source in Philippson's The Golem and the Adulteress, published in the Jewish magazine Shulamit in 1834, which describes how the Maharal sent a golem to find the reason for an epidemic among the Jews of Prague, although doubts have been expressed as to whether this date is correct.
All these early accounts of the Golem of Prague are in German by Jewish writers.
After finishing the manuscript, Čapek realized that he had created a modern version of the Jewish Golem legend.
* The remains of the Golem of Prague are said to be in the attic of the Old New Synagogue in Prague, and that it can be brought back to defend the Jewish people.
* Ruth Bienstock Anolik ( 2001 ) " Appropriating the Golem, Possessing the Dybbuk: Female Retellings of Jewish Tales ", IN Mica Howe & Sarah Appleton Aguiar ( editors ), He Said, She Says: An RSVP to the Male Text.
He is one of a limited number of Jewish superheroes, and his continuity is tied to that of DC Comics ' Golem, derived from the Golem of Prague of Jewish folklore.
The Superman character was developed by Cleveland residents Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the spirit of the Jewish Golem during the rise of the Third Reich.
It was while making this film that he first heard the old Jewish legend of the Golem and proceeded to adapt the story to film, co-directing and co-writing the script with Henrik Galeen.
Golem and legend
Moshe Idel comments, " This tradition in one form or another is the blueprint of the later legend of the creation of the Golem by Eliayahu's famous contemporary R. Yehudah Leow of Prague.
According to legend, the body of Rabbi Loew's Golem still lies in the synagogue's attic.
A recent legend tells of a Nazi agent ascending to the synagogue attic during World War II and trying to stab the Golem, but he died instead.
The Maharal is the subject of a nineteenth-century legend that he created The Golem of Prague, an animate being fashioned from clay.
To a contemporary reader, there is also a similarity to the hubristic nature of the Golem legend, or to Frankenstein, in that even the most skilled of mortals cannot rival divine perfection when creating life.
* The Golem: while connected with the legend of rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the Golem is cast as a sort of gestalt entity, a physical manifestation of the ghetto's inhabitants ' collective psyche, as well as of the ghetto's own " self.
The novel was not the basis for four films of the title, which, rather, adapt the original Golem legend.
* Judah Loew ben Bezalel, a Bohemian Talmud scholar known for the legend that he created the Golem of Prague
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