![]() ![]() The rabbi, therefore, must destroy his creation. This is especially true when the rabbi's dream comes true and the golem must stop a riot, but instead of simply stopping it, he runs rampant throughout the ghetto burning down houses and uprooting trees. This prompts him to create a golem, a powerful clay man, who serves as the guardian and protector of the ghetto. ![]() Rabbi Lev is the leader of the Jewish Ghetto in Prague in the sixteenth century and one night he has a prophetic dream about trouble between the Jews and Christians of that city. It is basically the same story of the Wisniewski verson except that it ends more suddenly. ![]() This book won a 1977 Caldecott Honor award, and was rather hard to find (finally managed to get an interlibrary loan copy from Georgia). I was curious to see another person's interpretation of the story and this one was definitely interesting. I had heard of the Golem story before, through David Wisniewski's wonderful 1996 version and other books. ![]()
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