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The Golem (German: Der Golem, shown in the United States as The Monster of Fate), a 1915 German silent horror film, written and directed by Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen. [46] [better source needed] The Golem and the Dancing Girl (German: Der Golem und die Tänzerin), a 1917 German silent comedy-horror film, directed by Paul Wegener and Rochus ...
The Museum of the Yiddish Theatre writes that The Golem was "an overwhelming success everywhere." [3]According to the 1963 Lexicon of Yiddish Literature, "People read and re-read [The Golem], debated and wrote about the problems of the book: World liberation and Jewish redemption, the role of matter and the role of the spirit in the process of redemption, the Jewish Messiah and the Christian ...
The effect is named after the golem, a clay creature that was given life by Rabbi Loew of Prague in Jewish mythology.According to the legend, the golem was originally created to protect the Jews of Prague from the horrors of Blood Libel; [1] however, over time, the golem grew more and more corrupt to the point of spiraling violently out of control and had to be destroyed.