The Golem

I've got another idea fermenting now, based on the story of the Golem of Prague. An old Jewish legend about a rabbi who creates a golem out of mud to defend the shtetl from anti-semetic violence, but when the golem is too zealous in its defense, the rabbi is forced to destroy it. My thought is that the golem is sort of a tragic character; selflessly defending the weak, yet, when its actions draw too much ire from the strong, those it protects abandon it.

I'm thinking of doing a modern American family take on the theme, much as I did with Don Quixote for The Florentine. I'll save this for when I'm not working on Lenin anymore.