The Sword of Golem

by Abraham Rothberg

Book Overview

"Thou shalt mold a 'Golem' of clay who shall be your David against the new Goliath and Philistines." This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0841500789
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: McCall Pub Co
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A unique book, a good one

Whatever might be said in finding fault with this book as a literary work, I've had it around for almost thirty years and have enjoyed reading it several times. The fact Golem was a monster, the fact the Jewish community is portrayed as what it probably was, the fact that every element of this story is a tragedy, none of that takes anything away from it for me. I keep this one on the science fiction shelf of my mind, even though it's more than that, different from most science fiction. It's historical fiction, it's fantasy, and in a sense it's a study in eastern European and Jewish cultural history.I have no qualms about recommending it despite what others might see as literary flaws. I've dissected enough good books in university English departments to understand how perfect a work must be to survive the determined perusal by lesser men.