Golem: modern wars and their monsters 9781479889655, 1479889652

Table of contents :
Introduction : The Golem condition --
The face of destruction: Paul Wegener's World War I Golem films --
The Golem cult of 1921 New York: between redemption and expulsion --
Our enemies, ourselves: Israel's monsters of 1948 --
Supergolem: revenge after the Holocaust --
Pacifist computers and Jewish cyborgs: fighting for the future.

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