The Jewish legend of the Golem is often regarded as a prototype for the modern superhero. This mythical protector, capable of immense power yet prone to being misunderstood or feared, mirrors many ...

When my father was a middle school kid at the Yeshiva of Hartford, his preoccupations were relatively simple: He imagined being one of the few great Jewish baseball stars, and thought a lot about ...

Early silent horror, specifically in the German Expressionist mode, influenced generations of horror filmmakers. From their stark, often frame-filling shadows to the exaggerated look of the monsters ...

Happy Halloween, one and all. To celebrate that most ghoulish of all the holidays, Euronews Culture has taken a trip around Europe to explore some of the lesser-known mythical creatures in European ...

A family trip to Prague’s medieval Jewish Quarter, is a unique opportunity to explore one of the great cultural centers of European Jewry. It’s a place where legends come to life and you’ll catch a ...

‘It is said that the Golem lives everywhere and in all times,” wrote the Polish-Jewish writer David Frishman in 1922. Is Donald Trump the Golem of the current age? That tantalizing question is posed ...

Sometimes, a bearded, money-grubbing dwarf is just a bearded, money-grubbing dwarf and not an evil, anti-Semitic stand-in for Jews. Undoubtedly some will view “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” — the ...

Friday's new "Grimm" episode, "Dyin' on a Prayer," was unusual in that it was one of the rare outings featuring a creature that isn't a Wesen. And though the creature killed two people -- who did ...