The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction

by Elizabeth R. Baer

Traces the history of the golem legend and its appropriations in German texts and film as well as in post-Holocaust Jewish-American fiction, comics, graphic novels, and television.

First 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814336264
• ISBN13: 9780814336267
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"