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The Golem (Singer novel)

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The Golem
First English edition
publ. 1982 Farrar Straus Giroux
AuthorIsaac Bashevis Singer
LanguageYiddish
Publication date
1969
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint

The Golem is a novel written by Isaac Bashevis Singer that is a traditional telling of the golem of Prague from Jewish folklore. The work was first published in the Yiddish language in 1969 in The Jewish Daily Forward. It was rewritten and translated into English in 1982.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Elizabeth R. Baer (2012). "Traditional Tellings of the Golem Legend". The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction. Wayne State University Press. pp. 69–81. ISBN 9780814336274.