![]() ![]() Meyrink’s novel, his first, was published as a serial from December 1913 to August 1914 in German periodical Die Weißen Blätter. The Nobel Prize winning writer tells the story of the Golem of Prague from the perspective of a gravedigger. You can read more in The Golem by Elie Wiesel. ![]() If you too know the exact sequence of the 27 letters of God’s name, you too can make a Golem. The story goes that in the late 16th Century, Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel of Prague, also known as the Maharal (the Hebrew acronym of “Moreinu ha-Rav Loew” ‘Our Teacher, Rabbi Loew’), created a Golem of clay from the banks of the Vltava River and brought it to life through rituals and Hebrew incantations to defend the Prague ghetto from the frequent anti-Semitic attacks and pogroms. Steiner-Prag’s place of birth is relevant to this slice of Jewish folklore. Here we show atmospheric illustrations of the Golem as conceived by Prague-born artist Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880 – 1945) for Gustav Meyrink’s novel Der Golem, 1915. Agent Mulder is convinced that the Golem is attempting to avenge the murder. Soon after, one of the assailants is strangled to death. In that show, a Jewish man is murdered by racists. Readers may recognise the Golem from Kaddish, an episode of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The Golem, as conceived by Hugo Steiner-Prag, for Gustav Meyrink’s novel Der Golem. ![]()
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