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Source text (please read only from this text!): https://books.google.com/books?id=xJwXAQAAIAAJRabbi Loeb creates a man of clay, the golem, to house a perfect soul that he believes will not be blighted by human prejudices. But the rabbi’s plan does not turn out as he had hoped... This is one of many stories about the golem, all of which involve Rabbi Loeb (Judah Loew ben Bezalel), a 16th-century Talmudic scholar and mystic known as The Maharal.
Rodolf Lother (Rudolf Lothar Spitzer) was an Austrian writer. This story was published in the B'nai Brith journal The Menorah in 1896 and subsequently included in the author's German language book Der Golem: Phantasien und Historien (1904).
(Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)
Target completion date: 2022-03-01
Prooflistening level: Standard
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[*]Project Code: 0AKyranB
[*]Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Lothar (Rudolf Lother)
[*]Link to title on Wikipedia (if available):
[*]Number of sections (files) this project will have: 2
[*]Does the project have an introduction or preface: No
[*]Original publication date (if known): 1896
[*]If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog?
[*]Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:
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Genres for the project: Culture & Heritage Fiction; Historical Fiction; Religious Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: horror, Legends, Jews
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
For the first section, say:
For the second and subsequent sections, you may use the shortened intro if you wish:"Section (or Chapter) # of The Golem: A legend of old Prague. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "The Golem: A legend of old Prague, by Rudolf Lother. Section Title."
End of recording:"Section (or Chapter) # of The Golem: A legend of old Prague, by Rudolf Lother. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Section Title."
Say:
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of section (or chapter) #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of The Golem: A legend of old Prague, by Rudolf Lother."
Filename: golemalegendofoldprague_##_lother_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. golemalegendofoldprague_01_lother_128kb.mp3)
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
MC to select: icequeen
Copy and paste the file link generated by the uploader into the relevant Listen URL field in the Section Compiler, enter the duration in the Notes field, and post in this thread to let your PL and MC know that you have uploaded a file. You may also post the file link in the thread.
This story was published in two successive volumes of the B'nai Brith journal, The Menorah. The URL above is for the first volume only as the Template Generator only allows for one URL. The second volume can be found at https://books.google.com/books?id=xJwXAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
The complete citations are Vol XX (1896) pp. 336-342 and Vol XXI (1896) pp. 19-25, 73-79.
Hope this isn't too confusing...
Adrian
