Ancestral Tales and Legends
Ludwig A. Frankl
1836
Under the roof of the oldest synagogue in Prague (the Altneuschul), because of the belief that misfortune would meet the workers, there is preserved, in its primeval form and color, a piece of trunk-like clay, which is known by the name “Golem.”
A wise rabbi (still called High-Reb Leb by the Jews), who diligently occupied himself with the Kabbalah…
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