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"As Golems go" is not another Golem story. Like all the Golem souvenir statuettes goggling at you from Prague's tourist shops this Golem is a marketing ploy, to sell you something else: in this case a portrait of the legendary rabbi-magician Judah Loew, the Maharal of 1500s Prague. The book tries to see the creator of the Golem as a plausible historical character with prophetic aspirations and human foibles: a sketchy, light-hearted, irreverent portrait of Judah Loew as a thinker, teacher, writer, scientist, social reformer, and man of influence - one of the great intellectual figures of Central Europe's late Renaissance. Foibles-shmoibles, the man is worth knowing. ******************************* "A fine study of the thoughts and writings of the Maharal, presented in a humorous and popular format". (Jonathan Magonet in European Judaism) ******************************* About the Author: Benjamin Kuras is a Czech-born British writer and broadcaster. Starting as a radio writer for a local Czech radio station in 1966 he had a brief career in the Prague Spring, broadcasting until the arrival of Soviet tanks in 1968. By January 1969 he was back on air, this time from London with the BBC World Service where he served the customary expatriate writers term before being turned loose on English culture. His 17 English plays were performed on stage and radio in 5 countries. Since 1990 he has written over 1000 articles for Czech journals and newspaper and published 29 books in Czech and 4 in English. He lives in London and Prague.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. As Golems go - Kuras Benjamin *** [EN] Categories: English Language | Binding: Hardcover | Interspersed with Jewish jokes, this is an "entertaining perusal of life and writings of the legendary rabbi Loew of Prague" (Jonathan Magonet in European Judaism), discovering him to be a surprising precursor of modern ethics, quantum mechanics, relativity theory, transpersonal psychology, psychosomatic medicine and cybernetics, but not the creator of the fairy-tale artificial humanoid known as The Golem. First published in 2000, it remains a fresh evergreen. *** [DE] Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe | Durchsetzt mit jüdischen Witzen, ist dies eine "unterhaltsame Lektüre des Lebens und der Schriften des legendären Rabbi Löw von Prag" (Jonathan Magonet in European Judaism), die ihn als überraschenden Vorläufer der modernen Ethik, Quantenmechanik, Relativitätstheorie, transpersonalen Psychologie, psychosomatischen Medizin und Kybernetik entdeckt, aber nicht als Schöpfer des märchenhaften künstlichen Humanoiden, bekannt als Der Golem. Erstveröffentlichung im Jahr 2000, bleibt es ein frischer Dauerbrenner. *** [CZ] Vazba: vazane | Interspersed with Jewish jokes, this is an "entertaining perusal of life and writings of the legendary rabbi Loew of Prague" (Jonathan Magonet in European Judaism), discovering him to be a surprising precursor of modern ethics, quantum mechanics, relativity theory, transpersonal psychology, psychosomatic medicine and cybernetics, but not the creator of the fairy-tale artificial humanoid known as The Golem. First published in 2000, it remains a fresh evergreen. Seller Inventory # B-00043426
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