The Golem and the Jewish Superhero
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Published 2021-03-29
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Many thanks to Alexander Shonert for allowing me to use his beautiful violin pieces: • Jewish violin played by Alexander Sho...
Wall art by Carin Walsh: www.instagram.com/carinwalshart/?hl=en
Sources:
Golem- David Wisniewski, 1996
The Golem- Elie Wiesel, 1983
The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction- Elizabeth Baer, 2012
Stories of Your Life and Others- Ted Chiang, 2002
El Golem- Jorge Luis Borges, 1964 (Translated by Frank Thomas Smith)
Der Golem: Wie er in die Welt kam- Paul Wegener, 1920
The X-Files, Season 4 Episode 15: Kaddish, 1997
Hans Poelzig: The Design of Mystical Film Architecture- Despina Maria Ilinca Iorga, 2014
Architectuul: Hans Poelzig- architectuul.com/architect/hans-poelzig
The Role of the Golem in the Making of Frankenstein- Stephen Bertman, 2015
The Golem Legend: Byron Sherwin, 1985
Other Media Used: The Iron Giant, Inglorious Basterds, Minecraft, Dark Souls, The Complete Pokerap (Brian David Gilbert, Polygon), Frankenstein (1931), Final Fantasy X-2, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Shadow of the Colossus, Susano’s Training Theme (Okami), Premonition of Revival (Shadow of the Colossus)
Violin Pieces by Alexander Shonert include:
Rosinkalech Mit Mandlen
Klezmerka
Al Taster
Ravel’s Kaddish
Other Music Provided by Epidemic Sound- Artists used include Silver Maple, Mike Franklyn, Alexandra Woodward, Trabant 33, Ciaran Delany, Rupert Sachs, and Jon Algar
Thumbnail by: David Wisniewski and twitter.com/HotCyder
Description from Elie Wiesel’s The Golem
All Comments (21)
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I'll be doing a full director's commentary for this on my patreon, where folks can ask me questions and hear behind-the-scenes info. Come hang! www.patreon.com/JacobGeller
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Fun fact: you can stop a golem by removing the first letter of the word "emeth" written on its forehead, so the word "meth" is left and the golem gets arrested by the DEA
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Imagine witnessing a pile of clay being bestowed life and the first conscious thought it has is “you sure, bro?”
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Theres a part that Jacob doesnt narrate in the story that really makes me tear up at 10:06 "Please!" Golem cried. "Please let me live! I did all that you asked of me! Life is so... Precious... to me!" With that, he collapsed into clay. I want to believe Rabbi Loew had to recite Kaddish, for he truly believed he had destroyed his own child...
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Kal El might not have "Truth" written on his brow, but "Hope" is written on his chest
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"Bad vibes are on the horizon for the Jews" sums up all of Jewish history.
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Shoutout to the incredible tonal whiplash between "Who will tell us what God felt, looking at his Rabbi in Prague?" and "The golem really goes sicko mode."
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There's something so striking to me in the way the golem is naive and gentle, but also so profoundly aware of the weight its existence carries.
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The beginning of the Golem story is making me imagine a noir-style detective story with the Golem at the center. A huge clay man in a sweeping trench coat and a fedora with a glowing golden "emet" written on it, solving mysteries and punching Nazis.
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"The Jews in the story are just... Not having a good time" This is one of ten lines I'd use to describe all of human history.
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"Father, was this wise to do?" Frankenstein's monster liked this.
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The golem pleading to stay alive with the "I've done everything you've asked of me" just hit so hard and the book just expects you to move on after that page like ????? So powerful and so abrupt
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I’m Jewish. I grew up with the story of the golem, told to me by my dad, who has a tiny figurine of one hanging on a leather cord from a lamp, with a Jewish star on the other end. I remember playing Minecraft for the first time and getting so excited to see golems in the game, protecting people like they’re meant to. After watching this video, I showed it to my dad and ever time I see this video, I feel very strong emotions. This story means so much to me, ever since I was a little kid. Thank you so much for making this video.
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"Father will I remember this?" Holy hell dude, thanks for the existential crisis.
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Picture this: I'm a Jewish writer and linguist, sitting at my desk wearing a Superman t-shirt. My friend sends me this video, and I start listening, thinking it'll be a nice, interesting podcast-esque thing to listen to while I send some emails. Thirty minutes later, I've sent no emails, and I'm crying at my desk. This video is everything I love most in the world, wrapped up into one beautiful package explaining why I love it so much. Thanks.
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I am LITERALLY 3 minutes into this but I feel a mighty need, as an art student who has done cut paper for some university assignments, to express how INSANE those illustrations are to me. Cut paper is HARD, even when you're working with relatively simplistic designs. The pieces shown here are complex illustrations full of little details, and they are beautifully done. I just really wanted to extend my appreciation here, since I can kind of imagine the painstaking hours that likely went into creating all of these. Edit: Unrelated to anything I said before but man, of all the videos I've watched this was not the video I was expecting to suddenly hear my name in.
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i'm a religious studies scholar and genuinely wrote down "post-holocaust golem theology" to look into yesterday and was so excited to see this on my feed! what a wonderful breakdown of the history of the golem and it's implications and interpretations today. thanks again jacob!
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jacob: im going to read to you from a storybook me, 22 year old college graduate: oh HELL yeah storytime
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“The Golem really goes sicko mode” now this is the kind of literature analysis that I can get behind
