The Golem: Legends of the Ghetto of Prague

by Chayim Bloch, Harry Schneiderman, trans

$50 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

Vienna: Printing-Office John N. Vernay, 1925 . Hardcover. Octavo. 247 1 pp., 10 plates. Textured blue buckram with gilt lettering on spine. Collection of legends surrounding the character of the Golem of Prague, a man of clay supposedly brought to life by means of a cabalistic ceremony by Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague. In some of the popular accounts the Golem's purpose was to patrol the Jewish ghetto to guard against Christians attempting to frame Jews

• Binding: Hardcover

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