According to Jewish folklore, in the late 16th-century ... “You shall create [a] Golem from clay and may the malicious anti-Semitic mob be destroyed.” So he fashioned a powerful giant creature ...

Perpetuated in horror films and scary books, the Jewish legend of the golem is most often associated with Prague as the birthplace and setting for the story of the famous clay monster. However, as ...

A golem is a figure in Jewish folklore usually made of clay, mud, or dust; a vessel for a word or idea, a metaphor come to life. Golems figure throughout "Something Terrible Has Happened (Corpus ...

Leaders like ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt and ZOA’s Mort Klein have successfully conflated any criticism — however justified — of Israel’s Gaza and West Bank policy with antisemitism.