For the 400th anniversary of Rabbi Judah Loew, the Maharal of Prague, his Czech city is taking a close look at the man and the legend of his golem. PRAGUE (JTA) — Just don’t mention the golem.
There was a time, wrote the Yiddish author I.L. Peretz, a terrible time, when the ghetto of Prague was under assault. For the Jews had received word that their women were about to be raped, their ...