Edan Dekel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3958749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edan Dekel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edan |
| FAMILY NAME | Dekel |
| SIGNATURE | DEKEL E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Golem, the Ghost, and the Rose
This essay examines the earliest known versions of three of the most prominent legends associated with Rabbi Judah Loew, the Maharal of Prague: the story of the golem, the tale of the rabbi deceiving a ghost to uncover the cause of a children’s plague, and the account of the rabbi’s final contest with Death himself. By unraveling the complex history of these legends across the nineteenth century, the essay reveals their surprising shared origin i…
Kafka's Golem
This articles examines two of Franz Kafka's lesser-known fragments in light of the Prague Golem legend and its popularity in the early twentieth century: a brief story about a rabbi's attempt to make a clay man in his house and the tale of a mysterious animal that lives in a provincial synagogue. By tracing threads of narrative continuity between these fragments, which are the only explicitly Jewish tales in Kafka's corpus, and with earlier versi…
How the Golem Came to Prague
This article examines the emergence of the Golem legend associated with the Maharal of Prague in the first half of the nineteenth century, with specific attention to the innovations found in two little-known versions by important Jewish literary figures of the era: the Bohemian-born Viennese poet and editor Ludwig Frankl and the Danish writer Meir Aaron Goldschmidt. These versions, it is argued, reveal several crucial mechanisms that help explain…
Virgil's Homeric Lens
Virgil’s Homeric Lens reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid’s relationship to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Almost since the death of Virgil, there has been an assumption that the Aeneid breaks into two discrete halves: Virgil’s Odyssey, and Virgil’s Iliad. Although modified in various ways over the centuries, this neat dichotomy has generally diminished the complexity and resonance of the connection between the two canonical epic poets. Th…
Virgil's Homeric Lens
Virgil’s Homeric Lens reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid’s relationship to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Almost since the death of Virgil, there has been an assumption that the Aeneid breaks into two discrete halves: Virgil’s Odyssey, and Virgil’s Iliad. Although modified in various ways over the centuries, this neat dichotomy has generally diminished the complexity and resonance of the connection between the two canonical epic poets. Th…
Virgil's Homeric Lens
Virgil’s Homeric Lens reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid’s relationship to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Almost since the death of Virgil, there has been an assumption that the Aeneid breaks into two discrete halves: Virgil’s Odyssey, and Virgil’s Iliad. Although modified in various ways over the centuries, this neat dichotomy has generally diminished the complexity and resonance of the connection between the two canonical epic poets. Th…
How the Golem Came to Prague
This article examines the emergence of the Golem legend associated with the Maharal of Prague in the first half of the nineteenth century, with specific attention to the innovations found in two little-known versions by important Jewish literary figures of the era: the Bohemian-born Viennese poet and editor Ludwig Frankl and the Danish writer Meir Aaron Goldschmidt. These versions, it is argued, reveal several crucial mechanisms that help explain…
Kafka's Golem
This articles examines two of Franz Kafka's lesser-known fragments in light of the Prague Golem legend and its popularity in the early twentieth century: a brief story about a rabbi's attempt to make a clay man in his house and the tale of a mysterious animal that lives in a provincial synagogue. By tracing threads of narrative continuity between these fragments, which are the only explicitly Jewish tales in Kafka's corpus, and with earlier versi…
The Golem, the Ghost, and the Rose
This essay examines the earliest known versions of three of the most prominent legends associated with Rabbi Judah Loew, the Maharal of Prague: the story of the golem, the tale of the rabbi deceiving a ghost to uncover the cause of a children’s plague, and the account of the rabbi’s final contest with Death himself. By unraveling the complex history of these legends across the nineteenth century, the essay reveals their surprising shared origin i…
Art (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Legend (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aeneis (Virgil) (1 work)