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THE GOLEM: A STORY OF  A ISRAELI COMICS
by Eli Eshed and Uri Fink

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Recently, in 2003, there was published by Modan an imaginary book by Eli Eshed (this writer) and Uri Fink about the history of a comics series in an alternative state of Israel. This is an Israel in which there was a fully developed and incredibly succesful  comics industry since the 40s as a result of the success of a particular series hero. The series and the book are called THE GOLEM and the hero is a Hebrew superhero to finish all Hebrew superheroes.  The book described the history of the series since the 1940s when it was drawn  by young comics artist, Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg in that reality) who had immigrated in that alternate universe to Palestine like many other Jews up to the year 2003. It described and brought “examples” from  many comics stories in which the Golem is collborating with various real well known Israeli personalities such as Izchak Rabin, Moshe Dayan and Ariel Sharon. It also involved imaginary ones such as the Jungle King, Tarzan,  in Africa (in finding the ten lost tribes of Israel in Africa and in fighting African leader Idi Amin at 1976 which involved the Entebe raid to free Israeli hostages). Another fictional hero included was a version of his fellow fampus (in our reality) super hero Danidin the invisible boy from the famous book series of that name.

Specifically for the book were created a song and a movie clip with limited animation about the Golem adventures .in the style of the '70s where, according to the alternate reality in the book, it was created.

Though imaginary, the book is based on real events and personalities of Hebrew popular culture peoples such as Pinchas Sade Asher Dickstein and Giora Rotman who are presented as writers and artists of the series in the alternative world. Imitations of their stories and art (as a “Golem artworks”) were specifically and succesfully made by Uri Fink. The book has won a great success in Israel and is something of a cult book. It serves as a kind of “last word” about the Israeli comics super hero.

The Golem Clip
http://www.multiverse.co.il/kaboom/golem/Main1.htm

The Golem Book :
http://www.mitos.co.il/Book/BookFocus.asp?ID=142320&PopupID=0

Hebrew SF and Fantasy for Children

ISRAELI SF, FANTASY FUTUROLOGY  AND 
ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE LITERATURE AT THE 
BEGINING OF THE 21 CENTURY :PART 1
http://www.notes.co.il/eshed/4566.asp
PART 2
http://www.notes.co.il/eshed/4569.asp

A survey of modern Hebrew Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.e-mago.co.il/e-magazine/asotsosiiitlfy-eles.html

German Pulp Literature in Israel in English
http://www.prfz.de/hebrew/english.html
and in German
http://prfz.de/hebrew/deutsch.html

The History of Hebrew Science Fiction
http://www.notes.co.il/eshed/3861.asp

The History of Hebrew Comics
http://www.notes.co.il/eshed/3954.asp