"El Golem" is a poem by
Jorge Luis Borges, part of the 1964 book ''
El otro, el mismo'' (''The other, the self''). The poem tells the story of
Judah Loew
Judah Loew ben Bezalel (; between 1512 and 1526 – 17 September 1609), also known as Rabbi Loew ( Löw, Loewe, Löwe or Levai), the Maharal of Prague (), or simply the Maharal (the Hebrew language, Hebrew Hebrew abbreviations, acronym of "''Morei ...
(Judá León) and his giving birth to the
Golem. In that poem, Borges quotes the works of German Jewish philosopher
Gershom Scholem.
Works by Jorge Luis Borges
1964 poems
Golem
Spanish-language poems
Argentine speculative fiction works
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