The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction

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217 Abney, Gordon, 115 Adorno, T. W.: on post-Holocaust poetry, 2, 9, 10–11, 87–88, 153, 169, 193n1 Ahasuerus, expulsion edict of, 62 Alcalay, Isaac, 35 Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women, 155 Allen, Graham: Intertextuality, 8 Allison, Alida, 79 The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist (comic book series), 146–48, 200n21 Amery, Jean: in The Golems of Gotham, 169, 176 Andrejew, Andrej, 65 Anolik, Ruth Bienstock, 163, 201n7, 201n9 antisemitism: in American hiring practices, 111; depiction in The Book of Splendor, 95; depiction in The Golem’s Mighty Swing, 122–26; depiction in The Golem Song, 186; depiction in Snow in August, 132–33, 134, 137; in film, 63; Meyrink’s, 44– 45, 46, 48, 50, 62, 68, 182–83; statesponsored , 32, 33; of Der Student von Prag, 56–57; in Vienna, 182; of Wegener’s Golem, 52, 53, 54, 60, 64, 68, 182–83; of Weimar Republic, 52 Appelfeld, Aharon, 152 Arab-Israeli conflict, 115 archive, literary/historical, 9 Arnim, Ludwig Achim von, 21 Arnold, Christoph, 21 Asner, Ed, 4, 190 Astaroth (demon), 56, 60 Auschwitz: inmate rebellion in, 188; liberation of, 189; Wiesel’s imprisonment in, 81 Austen, Jane: intertextual adaptations of, 8 Ausubel, Nathan, 193n2 Baal Shem, Elijah, 5; in golem creation legend, 21, 35 Baal Shem Tov, 74, 197n4 Bartels, Adolf, 43 Bartov, Omer, 60, 62 baseball: Negro Leagues, 125; in Snow in August, 129, 134. See also Sturm, James: The Golem’s Mighty Swing Becker, Jurek: Jacob the Liar, 11 Behlman, Lee, 143 Berger, Alan, 177, 202n21 Bernstein, Richard, 156, 201n13 Bilefsky, Dan, 1 Bilski, Emily, 50, 67; Golem! Danger, Deliverance, and Art, 74 Blanchot, Maurice, 1 Blavatsky, Madame, 47 Bleiler, E. F., 48 Bloch, Chayim, 12, 18; use of Rosenberg, 28, 33–35, 160 The Golem: Legends of the Ghetto of Prague, 33–35; destructive Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations 02 Baer BM.indd 217 2/2/12 12:50 PM 218 Index Bloch, Chayim (continued) golem in, 78; magic palace in, 199n13; Ozick’s use of, 160–61; purpose of, 35; Rabbi Loew in, 61 blood libel: in The Book of Splendor, 94; Christian belief in, 35, 194n2; Loew and, 26, 35; in nineteenth century, 32–33; pogroms based on, 4; in Pösing, 194n2; in Prague, 32, 45; protection from, 22; role in golem creation, 3, 75, 83, 161; in Rosenberg, 29, 30, 94, 198n10; in Russia, 165 Bloom, Harold, 137 Bohemia-Moravia: Holocaust in, 194n5; Jewish communities of, 23; Statuta Judaeorum (1262), 32 Book Yetsirah (Book of Creation), 5, 19, 161; golem creation in, 20; in Golem of Auschwitz, 188; in The X-Files, 178 Borges, Jorge Luis: “An Autobiographical Essay,” 190; “A Book of Sand,” 195n3; “The Golem,” 189–90; knowledge of Meyrink, 190, 195n4 Borowski, Tadeusz, 11; in The Golems of Gotham, 169 Briggs, Kenneth, 86–87 Brod, Max, 42 Brontë, Charlotte: intertextual adaptations of, 38, 200n21 Buchen, Irving, 197n2 Burns, Robert, 200n21 Buscema, John, 113 Byrne, Richard, 61, 197n23 Campbell, Joseph, 48 Captain Marvel comics, 129, 131, 199n10 Captain Midnight (radio program), 133 Carrey, Jim, 181 cartoonists, Jewish: name changes by, 111, 126, 140 Casken, John, 4 Celan, Paul, 11; in The Golems of Gotham, 169, 176 Chabon, Michael, 10; genre fiction of, 137–38; influences on, 140, 200n18; interest in golems, 138, 139; love of comics, 143–44; truth and lies in, 138–39, 147 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, 13, 137–47, 149–50; comics in, 144, 145–48; comics industry in, 141–43; dichotomies of, 145; doppelgängers in, 140; escape in, 141–43, 144, 145–48; imagination in, 144, 147; metamorphoses in, 141–43, 144; readers of, 146; setting of, 140; superhero golem in, 141–42; transformation in, 144 “Golems I have Known,” 138–40 Manhood for Amateurs, 149 Maps and Legends, 139, 146 “The Revenge of Captain Nemo,” 140 The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 148 Chagall, Marc, 172 Chomiak, Bohdan, 116 Cohen, Sarah Blacher, 153 Colby, C. B., 139 comics: magic potions in, 130; power fantasies in, 129; underground, 119; valorization of, 141, 143, 145 Comics Code Authority, 119 comics industry, American, 13, 14; in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, 141–43; American fiction in, 200n17; development of, 141; Golden Age of, 112, 144; Jewish founders of, 111–12, 139; superhero craze in, 141 Cooke, Paul, 57, 58 creation: biblical story of, 4; ritual representation of, 20. See also golem creation creativity: golem’s links to, 6, 35, 74; link to Hebrew language, 157...