Der Goylem
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, embossed, gilded : beige, black, red, green, gold, white ; Ht: 20,5 cm x W: 13,2 cm
- Date
- 1927
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, embossed, gilded : beige, black, red, green, gold, white ; Ht: 20,5 cm x W: 13,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1927
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 254 pages; encased in red binding; image of a man's portrait on the cover, surrounded by an embossed gold frame. More gold embossing under the image, with the title printed in white; additional gold text along the vertical binding. Interior pages are beige, with the top edge dyed red; they consist of text. Narrative: Der Goylem (The Golem) is a dramatic poem in eight scenes by H. Leivick written in 1921. The story is a reworking of a legend of Judah Loew ben Bezalel, known as the Maharal, a great rabbi of Prague. In the legend, he animates a golem, a being crafted from inanimate material.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.41.24
- Name Access
- Orenstein, Benjamin
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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