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The picture book, Golem by David Wisniewski starts out with a city called Prague, the city is quiet, however every religion is against each other, the Czech, against the German, Protestant against the Catholic, however everyone is against the jews. A Rabbi by the name of Judah Loew ben Bezalel, asked someone to create a giant clay monster to protect the Jewish people, he created him, gave him life by lightning. His orders were to protect the Jewish community in the ghettos, he was ordered to bring the lying Christians to the authorities unharmed. By day he was a regular person by the name of Joseph, his job was to help around the synagogue, and by night he went to protect the Jewish community, although giant all the time Rabbi Loew told
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