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Where does “גולם” come from?

גולם (Yiddish) comes from Hebrew גולם — an inchoate object, an amorphous mass; a dummy, a...

גולם (Yiddish): golem; fool, idiot, dummy

Definitions

  1. golem; fool, idiot, dummy

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1Hebrewגולםan inchoate object, an amorphous mass; a dummy, a...
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