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The clay golem is based on the golem of Medieval Jewish folklore, though changed from "a cherished defender to an unthinking hulk". [ 64 ] [ 65 ] The flesh golem is related to Frankenstein's monster as Universal 's 1931 film , seen in e.g. being empowered by electricity, [ 66 ] though again with the difference of being essentially an unthinking ...
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Jewish folklore are legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of Judaism. Folktales are characterized by the presence of unusual personages, by the sudden transformation of men into beasts and vice versa, or by other unnatural incidents.
Siegmund Breitbart (22 February 1893 – 12 October 1925), also known popularly as Zishe or Sische Breitbart (Yiddish: זישע ברייטבאַרט), was a Polish-born circus performer, vaudeville strongman and Jewish folklore hero. He was known as the "Strongest Man in the World" and Eisenkönig ("Ironking") during the 1920s.
In modern times, an antiques dealer (Henrik Galeen) searching the ruins of a Jewish temple, finds a golem (Paul Wegener), a clay statue that had been brought to life four centuries earlier by a Kabbalist rabbi using a magical amulet to protect the Jewish people from persecution.
The Legends of the Jews is a chronological compilation of aggadah from hundreds of biblical legends in Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash.The compilation consists of seven volumes (four volumes of narrative texts and two volumes of footnotes with a volume of index) synthesized by Louis Ginzberg in a manuscript written in the German language.
Like the novel, the movie opens with a storm that leaves a robot stranded on an island inhabited by animals. Rozzum 7143, or Roz for short, is accidentally activated by a group of curious otters.
In 2004, Noy was awarded the Israel Prize, the country's highest honor, for his folklore research. [2] In 2002, he got the Bialik Prize. [7] He was called "The Doyen of Jewish Folkloristics", [2] [8] and that he "single-handedly established the study of Jewish Folklore in Israel". [7] [2] Noy died on 29 September 2013, in Jerusalem. [3]