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[Harald Salfellner, ed.]
The Prague Golem: Jewish Stories of the Ghetto.
Publisher:Vitalis, 2007.
ISBN 9788072531882.
Binding: paperback with dustjacket, perfect bound.
Printed in the EU.
Size: 148x208x6mm.
Page count: 64pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild wear on the dustjacket, but overall doesn’t look heavily used; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £3.50
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price €9.90]
Weight without packaging: 128g.

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Retells a number of stories & anecdotes, mostly not about the golem; emphasis generally 16th-century.

Contents: How the Jews came to Bohemia; The Old-New Synagogue of Prague; Mordecai Maisel; The quiet Jew; Rabbi Loew's engagement; Rabbi Loew, benefactor of the Jews of Prague; The wine merchant & his coachman; Beleles Street; Creation of the golem; The Torah scroll that fell; The golem is enraged; End of the golem; Rabbi Loew & the rose; Pinkas Street.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: 21, monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: a few references
Index: no

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See also | Judaica | Esoteric |
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