# Gershom Scholem **Domain:** Jewish studies / cultural history of technology **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Gershom Scholem (1897–1982)** was a historian of Jewish mysticism whose 1966 essay “The Golem of Prague and the Golem of Rehovoth” connected the Golem tradition to a computer at the Weizmann Institute. ## Evidence Ledger ### Established - Scholem delivered and published the Rehovot address associating the institute's computer with the Golem tradition. ### Strongly indicated - His interpretation transmitted an artificial-being lineage into the public meaning of modern computation. ### Plausible - The essay contributed to later cultural readings of computers as constructed minds. ### Unresolved - Its direct influence on later machine-intelligence researchers. ## Sources / Provenance - [Gershom Scholem, “The Golem of Prague and the Golem of Rehovoth” (1966)](https://www.commentary.org/articles/gershom-scholem/the-golem-of-prague-the-golem-of-rehovoth/). ## Relationships - **Institution:** [[wiki/Weizmann Institute of Science|Weizmann Institute of Science]]. - **Named machine:** [[wiki/Golem Aleph|Golem Aleph]]. - **Historical method:** [[wiki/Transmitted Objective|Transmitted Objective]]. - **Source:** [[articles/A History of Machine Intelligence|A History of Machine Intelligence]].