The Golem’s Circle

Angelina Muñiz-Huberman

1992

Rabbi Eleazar opened the palm of his hand

and let the fertile, virgin earth escape

He took pure water from the mountain spring

recited the two hundred and twenty-one alphabetical combinations

and formed the golem.

He desired the man of clay to walk

and the man of clay walked

He desired the man of clay to obey

and the man of clay obeyed

He…

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Angelina Muñiz-Huberman

b. 1936

Born in France to refugees of the Spanish Civil War, Angelina Muñiz-Huberman moved to Mexico at age six, where she has been a writer and professor of comparative literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Many of her works deal with the situation of conversos and their place in Jewish history. Muñiz-Huberman has written novels, poetry, and essays.

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