![]() ![]() The book is illustrated with incredibly detailed cut-paper, and the scope it offers is thrilling. “Then I shall not obey you,” responds the creature, his forehead still marked with the Hebrew letters which gave him life. The towering Golem asks if he will remember this day. “Your purpose is at an end,” says Rabbi Loew, standing on the balcony and considering the many hundreds of graves strewn below. Once the giant is raised and given its marching orders – to destroy the enemy – it does not then go quietly into the night. There are no scientists here, however, only Cabalists and practitioners of the occult. This story has been around for many centuries, and is considered to be the forerunner of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. This is an extraordinarily beautiful book which tells the story of the Golem, a giant made from the earth and given life by the Cabalist Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel in the year 1580. Retold and Illustrated by David Wisniewski ![]()
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