What began as a way to demonstrate mastery of a religious text morphed into an unintended monster and was later reclaimed as a protector. Golem's story is as malleable as the clay from which it ...

An “American Golem” looks over the rest of the gallery with a quizzical expression. A three-dimensional pastiche — his head a copy of a Babylonian fired-clay mask of the first monster ...

The Golem is a haunting figure as played by Joseph McKenna in a bare skull and chalk-white makeup. Like the later figure of Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, the Golem is at first shy and incapable of ...

One such project that never came about would have pit perennial movie tough guy Charles Bronson against a monster Golem brought to life to dispense the very sort of vigilante justice Bronson’s ...

Gelbin, a professor at the University of Manchester, points out in her authoritative essay “Was Frankenstein’s Monster Jewish?” that the Hebrew term “galmi,” or “my Golem,” first ...