num_pages: 348
description: Rochel, an illegitimate seamstress, escapes the travails of poverty through an arranged marriage to the tailor Zev, but finds herself falling in love with Yossel, the Golem created by Rabbi Loew to the protect the Jewish community of seventeenth-century Prague. 18,500 first printing.
language: English
title: The Book of Splendor
titlecomplete: The Book of Splendor
genres: Fiction, Historical, 17th Century, Jewish, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Judaism
ratings_count: 313
places: Prague (Praha), Czech Republic
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc