The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction by Elizabeth R. Baer synced New York and Ann Arbor

New York and Ann Arbor

It is studded with images that are surprising and yet never strained or irrelevant

found “The Ghetto” “at once personal in its piercing sympathy and epical in its sweep

Where prewar German and Austrian contexts used the golem as a signifier of Jewish otherness to underscore growing anti-Semitic cultural feelings

The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction by Elizabeth R. Baer synced New York and Ann ArborFirst mentioned in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible, the golem is a character in an astonishing number of post Holocaust Jewish American novels and has served as inspiration for such varied figures as Mary Shelley's monster in her novel Frankenstein, a frightening character in the television series The X Files, and comic book figures such as Superman and the Hulk. In The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post Holocaust Fiction, author Elizabeth R.