In 2015, Joshua Abarbanel was commissioned by the Jewish Museum Berlin to create a large-scale golem sculpture for their 2016 exhibition Golem. Often the creature runs amok and becomes a threat.įor generations, the golem has inspired artists, writers, filmmakers, and scholars who have been intrigued by the tale’s metaphors about creativity, hubris, the potency of words, and the conundrums of power. In most tales the golem is conjured by a human and becomes a helper, companion, or rescuer of an imperiled Jewish community (when Berlin’s Weissensee Jewish Cemetery was spared destruction during the Holocaust, some said it was because a golem resided on its grounds). In Jewish folklore, the golem is an inanimate creature brought to life by ritual incantations and sequences of Hebrew letters. Artwork and Lecture by Joshua Abarbanel.Location: VDA Family Suite, 3rd Floor, William H. Visit his website at 2019: A Golem for Berlin Shrayer’s works have been translated into ten languages. Shrayer’s many books include Waiting for America, I SAW IT, and Of Politics and Pandemics. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Shrayer, bilingual author, scholar, and translator, is a Professor at Boston College. Elizabeth Poliner, author of As Close to Us as Breathing and Mutual Life & Casualty “The past is present, and made alive again, in this most engaging memoir.” Marcel Theroux, author of The Sorcerer of Pyongyang and Far North Shrayer is a precious object: a kind of living Rosetta Stone who embodies multiple literary cultures." In this literary memoir, Shrayer writes about the legacy of his family’s past in Eastern Europe and about traversing the borders and boundaries of the three cultures that have nourished him―Russian, Jewish, and American. Shrayer as he reads from and discusses his new book Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of Exile. Please join us for an evening with acclaimed author and Boston College professor Maxim D.
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