The Brooklyn Golem

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A professor of English, dilapidated in his own eyes, Joseph Wisshovsky did not expect to find the Golem, the clay man of legend, buried in a Brooklyn basement. But a student, Meyer Las Casas, "a Baal T'shuvah!" as Meyer announced in the English for Foreign Students course, assured the teacher of it in a whisper after class, late in the term. Meyer swore that, wrapped in the cerements of the grave, under rotting piles of newsprint