Stashed in the bottom, Josef escapes to his aunt's home in Brooklyn. When the Germans occupy Prague in the Thirties, a committee of Jewish elders decides that the Golem's body must be sent away to protect it and his coffin becomes the means of departure for Josef. As the story goes, after the Golem begins to cause his own forms of destruction, Rabbi Loew buries the Golem's clay body in case he is ever needed again. The Golem is 'Rabbi Loew's mysterious automaton', whom, centuries back, Rabbi Loew conjured out of mud to save the Jewish people from destruction. Chabon brings Jewish mysticism from Prague to Brooklyn in the form of the Golem. He has managed to escape from Prague, with the help of his magic teacher, Bernard Kornblum, but has had to leave his family behind after the German occupation of the city. Josef Kavalier first makes the acquaintance of his cousin, Sammy Klayman, late one night in 1939.
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