This dream was perhaps induced because he inadvertently swapped his hat with the real (old) Pernath's. But his story is experienced by an anonymous narrator, who, during a visionary dream, assumes Pernath's identity thirty years before. The novel centers on the life of Athanasius Pernath, a jeweler and art restorer who lives in the ghetto of Prague. It was first translated into English in 1928. It became his most popular and successful literary work, and is generally described as the most "accessible" of his full-length novels. First published in serial form from December 1913 to August 1914 in the periodical Die Weißen Blätter, The Golem was published in book form in 1915 by Kurt Wolff, Leipzig. The Golem (original German title: Der Golem) is a novel written by Gustav Meyrink between 19.
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