Little Toy Robot

In Cynthia Ozick’s Puttermesser Papers, a lonely Jewish woman accidentally creates a golem, Xanthippe, who helps her become mayor of New York.

That’s a very tenuous introduction to this interesting story:

PRAGUE, March 23 (JTA) — When you run for U.S. president, you have to be prepared for opponents finding skeletons in your closet.

But in the case of Sen. John Kerry, the senator’s past may reveal not so much a skeleton but a Golem, the legendary Jewish man of clay.

A respected Czech historian is claiming that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee may be a descendant of the great Rabbi Judah Loew (1520-1609), a famous Kabbalist, philosopher and talmudist known as the Maharal of Prague. [JTA]

Not surprisingly, this story is not spilling much ink. This is not so much because it may be bunk, but because nobody cares. Nobody but Little Toy Robot. Don’t say you weren’t warned when Kerry summons the earth elemental to do his bidding for November.

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 25th, 2004 at 1:10 pm and is filed under general.