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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2017 | Middle To High School
Gr 4 Up—The famous Jewish legend of the Golem of Prague gets a new backstory in this translation from Italian, and it's oddly specific. Dates and full names are provided for the characters, whose tale begins 300 years after the Golem's time. The Golem, legend says, was a giant man made of clay, created by Rabbi Judah Loew to protect the Jews of ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2017
In 1892 Prague, an inquisitive boy named Frantz Munka, his curiosity piqued nearly to torment by the Golem story he's been told, is inexplicably drawn to the "forbidden attic" of the Old New Synagogue. He steals out one night to investigate and ends up unconscious on the attic floor. The (lengthy) narrative leaves Frantz there for the moment and flashes back to 1580, during the Inquisition e...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
