The Golden Mountain

The Golden Mountain: Marvelous Tales of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem and of his Great-Grandson, Rabbi Nachman, Retold from Hebrew, Yiddish and German Sources is a book by American novelist Meyer Levin, first published in 1932. It is a collection of tales of the Eastern European Hassidic Jews, centering on the holy men Baal Shem Tov and Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlaw.

The territory and narrative elements belong to the familiar world of folk tales, yet these magical realist stories are encoded with deeper levels of meaning, comparable to those found in Buddhist, Sufi, Celtic, and other spiritual traditions. Lovingly recounted by master storyteller Meyer Levin, this glimpse of a now long-gone world forms a rich anthology that can be enjoyed by a wide range of readers.