Expressionist influence is also in evidence in Frankenstein, drawn in part from the work of Paul Wegener and his films The Golem ( 1915 ) and The Golem: How He Came into the World ( 1920 ) along with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ) from Robert Wiene, which Whale reportedly screened repeatedly while preparing to shoot Frankenstein.

There was an Expressionist style in the cinema, important examples of which are Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ), The Golem: How He Came into the World ( 1920 ), Fritz Lang's Metropolis ( 1927 ) and F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror ( 1922 ) and The Last Laugh ( 1924 ).

* Ceru: The Ceru are a race of blue, gnomish beings who were enslaved by the Golem, but broke free when the Golem's homeworld ( where the Ceru happened to be at the time ) got sucked into the Maelstrom.

Then Golem Sr arrives, and as he activates the machine, the base shakes and a pipe hits Golem, knocking him into the lava.

Bruno and Whisper end up using a special technology to combine the Appellaxian bodies into an Appellaxian Golem that attacks Superboy, Blue Beetle, Wolf, and Sphere.

In 1917, he made a parody of the story called Der Golem und die Tänzerin, but it was his reworking of the tale, The Golem: How He Came into the World ( 1920 ) which stands as one of the classics of German cinema and helped to cement Wegener's place in cinematic history.

* The Golem: How He Came into the World ( 1920 ).

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.

H. Leivick ( pen name of Leivick Halpern, December 25, 1888 – December 23, 1962 ) was a Yiddish language writer, known for his 1921 " dramatic poem in eight scenes " The Golem.

The Golem ( original Yiddish title Der Goylem ) is a 1921 " dramatic poem in eight scenes " by H. Leivick.

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.

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.

A Polish Kabbalist, writing in about 1630 – 1650, reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thus: " And I have heard, in a certain and explicit way, from several respectable persons that one man close to our time, whose name is R. Eliyahu, the master of the name, who made a creature out of matter Golem and form tzurah and it performed hard work for him, for a long period, and the name of emet was hanging upon his neck, until he finally removed it for a certain reason, the name from his neck and it turned to dust.

Rosenberg published Niflaos Maharal: Ha Golem Al Prague ( Wonders of the Maharal: The Golem of Prague ) ( Warsaw, 1909 ) which purported to be an eyewitness account by the Maharal's son-in-law, who had helped to create the Golem.

As far as we know, the Vilna Gaon is the only Rabbi who has actually claimed that he tried to create a Golem ; all such stories about other rabbis were told after their time.

Golem is the evolved form of Graveler, who is in turn the evolved form of Geodude, and they all first appeared in the 1996 game Pokémon Red and Blue.

" 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 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.

Captain Carrot arrests Tiffany Aching after a disturbance involving the Nac Mac Feegles in the King's Head, who are defeated by Wee Mad Arthur, another Feegle, ( the rat catcher from Feet of Clay who rescues Sgt Colon from the King Golem, although he was referred to as a gnome in the original novel ), who has now joined the watch, he tells Tiffany that she shall be escorted by his colleague, Captain Angua.

Once they return to Ocean Shores, the gang has their first encounter with Eric Golem Jr., who challenges Otto to a skating competition.

In Making Money, Adora Belle Dearheart tells Lord Vetinari that historically, cultures did not build Golems who could kill, and this implies that even modifying the Chem would not make a Golem able to kill.

After the Appellaxian Golem is destroyed by the Partner of The Light, Bruno and Whisper are found in a catatonic state having been silenced by Sportsmaster as a warning to anyone who challenges The Light.

The Pelter gang is soon acquired and tracked by a group of ECS agents ; Pelter and his crew take out the agents one-by-one, including their Golem Twenty agent — who is no match for the Golem Twenty-five Mr. Crane.

In some tales, ( for example those of the Golem of Chelm and the Golem of Prague ) a golem is inscribed with Hebrew words that keep it animated.

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.

The general view of historians and critics is that the story of the Golem of Prague was a German literary invention of the early 19th century.

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.

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.

The Golem is a popular figure in the Czech Republic.

Golem is also a rock / ground type creature ( Pokémon # 76 ) in the animated TV show, video game series, and card game Pokémon.

Rudolf is also the ruler in many of the legends of the Golem of Prague, either because of or simply adding to his occult reputation.

Dune also inspired the 1999 album The 2nd Moon by the German death metal band Golem, which is a concept album about the series.

The Maharal is the subject of a nineteenth-century legend that he created The Golem of Prague, an animate being fashioned from clay.

* In the 1951 movie The Emperor and the Golem, Edward Kelly is fake occultist and conspirator.

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.

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.

Mount Korab (;, Golem Korab ) is the highest mountain of Albania and the Republic of Macedonia, its peak forming a frontier between the two countries.

According to folklore, these scraps were used to hide the famed Golem of Prague, whose body is claimed to lie in the genizah of the Altneushul in Prague

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.

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.

When the Gaon saw that the Golem was growing larger and larger, he feared that the Golem would destroy the universe.

Nonetheless, while he was engaged in extracting the Holy Name from him, the Golem injured him, scarring him on the face.

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.

The Emperor begged Rabbi Loew to destroy the Golem, promising to stop the persecution of the Jews.

To deactivate the Golem, the rabbi rubbed out the first letter of the word " emet " ( truth or reality ) from the creature's forehead leaving the Hebrew word " met ", meaning dead.

According to legend, the body of Rabbi Loew's Golem still lies in the synagogue's attic.

Some versions of the tale state that the Golem was stolen from the genizah and entombed in a graveyard in Prague's Žižkov district, where the Žižkov Television Tower now stands.

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.

When the attic was renovated in 1883, no evidence of the Golem was found.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( the last Rebbe of Lubavitch ) wrote that his father-in-law, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, told him that he saw the remains of the Golem in the attic of Alt-Neu Shul.

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.