Elie Wiesel
The Golem: The Story of a Legend as Told by Elie Wiesel and Illustrated by Mark Podwal.
Summit Books, 1983. First printing. Translation by Anne Borchardt. 671454838 105 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9", is bound in gilt-lettered quarter burgundy cloth and gray paper-covered boards. Book and dust jacket, with price of $12.95 on front flap, display very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"For centuries, Jews have remembered the Golem, a creature of clay said to have been given life by the mystical incantations of the mysterious Maharal, Rabbi Yehuda Loew, leader of the Jewish community of 16-century Prague... In this beautiful book, Elie Wiesel has collected many of the legends associated with this enigmatic and elusive figure and retold them as seen through the eyes of a wizened gravedigger who claims to have witnessed as a child the numerous miracles that legend attributes to the Golem..."
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