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Golem - Modern Wars and Their Monsters (Paperback)
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2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and
Linguistics Honorable Mention, 2016 Baron Book Prize presented by
AAJR A monster tour of the Golem narrative across various cultural
and historical landscapes In the 1910s and 1920s, a "golem cult"
swept across Europe and the U.S., later surfacing in Israel. Why
did this story of a powerful clay monster molded and animated by a
rabbi to protect his community become so popular and pervasive? The
golem has appeared in a remarkable range of popular media: from the
Yiddish theater to American comic books, from German silent film to
Quentin Tarantino movies. This book showcases how the golem was
remolded, throughout the war-torn twentieth century, as a muscular
protector, injured combatant, and even murderous avenger. This
evolution of the golem narrative is made comprehensible by, and
also helps us to better understand, one of the defining aspects of
the last one hundred years: mass warfare and its ancillary
technologies. In the twentieth century the golem became a figure of
war. It represented the chaos of warfare, the automation of war
technologies, and the devastation wrought upon soldiers' bodies and
psyches. Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters draws on some of the
most popular and significant renditions of this story in order to
unravel the paradoxical coincidence of wartime destruction and the
fantasy of artificial creation. Due to its aggressive and
rebellious sides, the golem became a means for reflection about how
technological progress has altered human lives, as well as an
avenue for experimentation with the media and art forms capable of
expressing the monstrosity of war. New Books Network interview with
Maya Barzilai on Golem
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