Golem in NYC

The ancient golem story has flourished in NYC since the 19th Century.

0200-02-01 00:00:00

Book of Creation or Sefer Yizirah

Kabbalist book was used to explain how the power of mystical letters and numbers can create golem.

1000 BC-02-01 00:00:00

Psalm 139:15-16

"My bone was not hidden from Thee, when I was made in secret, and formed in the lowest part of the earth. Thy eyes did see my golem; for in Thy book all things are written: the days also in which they are to be fashioned and for it too there was one of them." The Hebrew Scriptures, Harold Fisch

1214-02-01 00:00:00

Roger Bacon's Talking Head

The Christian monk and promoter of science was fascinated by Greek and Arabic "automata" of real beings. A popular apocryphal story is that Bacon had made a talking head.

1512-02-01 00:00:00

Legend of Golem of Rabbi Loew of Prague

1818-02-01 00:00:00

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus

Very similar to golem story.

1920-02-01 00:00:00

Paul Wegener's The Golem

The great expressionistic film has had the most influence on public awareness about the golem.

2012-02-01 00:00:00

Golem klezmer punk band from Brooklyn

2016-06-11 00:00:00

Golem in Paris

Golem! Avatars of a clay legend. At MahJ, Museum of the History and the Art of Judaism

2016-07-28 20:23:43

"Golem" on Off-Broadway

Who—or what—is in control of technologies? The danger lies not in machine becoming more like man … but in man becoming more like machine.

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