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Bezig met laden... De Golem een legende (1983)door Elie Wiesel
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   PendleHillLibrary | Sep 15, 2016 |  The books begins, "I owe this legend to an old beggar." It came from his uncle, who got it from his maternal grandfather, who heard it from his Master, the Rebbe Ephraim, "who was said to have possessed he powers of the Maharal, the celebrated Wonder Rebbe of Prague, but to have refused to use them for fear of blundering. And also because he claimed that the Lord, blessed be His name, ought to save our people without intermediaries." (pp. 11-2) Rebbe Ephraim, in turn, learned from Reuven, a gravedigger, who was an eye witness. The dust jacket cover and p. 33 shows the Maharal going up some steps with his shadow behind him and another shadow next to his. Some quotes: "[the Golem was] created in the year 1580 by the great and famous Rabbi Yehuda Lowe of Prague, known as the Maharal . . . ." [p. 13] "If you want my opinion, the 'Golem made of clay' was immortal, as immortal as the hatred he was asked to fight." [p. 17-8] "Yes, the Maharal, in his wisdom, had understood: the society in which the Jews lived, terrified of the future, had fallen so low that only a Golem---an artificial being without a soul, a creature of clay, dedicated to earthly matters and excluded from divine inspiration---could still have an effect and save it from perdition. That is why the heavenly answer given to the Maharal in his dream contained only ten letters from the Aleph-Bet: they were sufficient to create the Golem, or at least to project him into the world. If the message had contained all twenty-two letters, it would have meant that a perfect being was needed." [p. 45] (  ) raizel | Aug 8, 2016 |  )2  Citizenjoyce | Apr 9, 2012 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"For centuries, Jews have remembered the Golem, a creature of clay said to have been given life by the mystical incantations of the mysterious Maharal, Rabbi Yehuda Loew, leader of the Jewish community of 16th-century Prague. Some versions have the Golem as a lovable, clumsy mute; others as a monster like Frankenstein's who turned against his creator, giving a vivid warning against magic and the occult. In this beautiful book, Elie Wiesel has collected many of the legends associated with this enigmatic and elusive figure and retold them as seen through the eyes of a wizened gravedigger who claims to have witnessed as a child the numerous miracles that legend attributes to the Golem. 'I, Reuven, son of Yaakov,' he begins, 'declare under oath that "Yossel the mute," the "Golem made of clay," deserves to be remembered by our people, our persecuted and assassinated, and yet immortal people. We owe it to him to evoke his fate with love and gratitude .... He was a savior, I tell you.' Reuven's Golem is no fool or monster, but a figure of intuition, intelligence, and compassion who may yet return, perhaps in our own generation, to protect the Jews from their enemies. Mark Podwal's highly imaginative drawings recapture the mystery of Gothic Prague, and the elusive Golem is given a shape as the shadow of the Maharal. Thus, two remarkable artists have come together in the creation of a work of rare spiritual beauty which is also a triumph of the bookmaker's art."--Dust jacket. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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