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Many thanks to Alexander Shonert for allowing me to use his beautiful violin pieces:    • Jewish violin played by Alexander Sho...  

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Sources:
Golem David Wisniewski, 1996
The Golem Elie Wiesel, 1983
The Golem Redux: From Prague to PostHolocaust Fiction Elizabeth Baer, 2012
Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang, 2002
El Golem Jorge Luis Borges, 1964 (Translated by Frank Thomas Smith)
Der Golem: Wie er in die Welt kam Paul Wegener, 1920
The XFiles, Season 4 Episode 15: Kaddish, 1997
Hans Poelzig: The Design of Mystical Film Architecture Despina Maria Ilinca Iorga, 2014
Architectuul: Hans Poelzig http://architectuul.com/architect/han...
The Role of the Golem in the Making of Frankenstein Stephen Bertman, 2015
The Golem Legend: Byron Sherwin, 1985

Other Media Used: The Iron Giant, Inglorious Basterds, Minecraft, Dark Souls, The Complete Pokerap (Brian David Gilbert, Polygon), Frankenstein (1931), Final Fantasy X2, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Shadow of the Colossus, Susano’s Training Theme (Okami), Premonition of Revival (Shadow of the Colossus)

Violin Pieces by Alexander Shonert include:
Rosinkalech Mit Mandlen
Klezmerka
Al Taster
Ravel’s Kaddish

Other Music Provided by Epidemic Sound Artists used include Silver Maple, Mike Franklyn, Alexandra Woodward, Trabant 33, Ciaran Delany, Rupert Sachs, and Jon Algar

Thumbnail by: David Wisniewski and   / hotcyder  
Description from Elie Wiesel’s The Golem