Golems in Prose

In recent years, the golem has been making a resurgence in the Jewish literary world. Check out some of our favorite reads featuring this beloved claymate.

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Amit Tishler and Bruno Frenda, illus.

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Gallery of the Disappeared Men

Jonathan Papernick

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Golem Girl: A Memoir

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Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales

Sabrina Orah Mark

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I Made It Out of Clay

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Jewish Comix Anthology, Volume 1: A Collection of Tales, Stories and Myths Told and Retold in Comic Book Form

Steven M. Bergson, ed.

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Jewish Images in the Comics: A Visual History

Fredrik Stromberg

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Jewish Noir: Contemporary Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds

Kenneth Wishnia, ed.

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Magical Meet Cute

Cover of Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

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Cover of Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

Jonathan Auxier

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel

Cover of The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel

The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel

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The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague

Yudl Rosenberg; Curt Leviant , trans. & ed.

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The Golem, Methuselah, and Shylock: Plays

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The Golem of Brooklyn: A Novel

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The Golem of Paris

Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman

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The Hidden Palace

Cover of The Puttermesser Papers: A Novel

The Puttermesser Papers: A Novel

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The Rabbi Who Prayed for the City

Rachel Sharona Lewis

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The Secret That Is Not a Secret: Ten Heretical Tales

Cover of The World That We Knew: A Novel

The World That We Knew: A Novel

Cover of Wrath Becomes Her

Wrath Becomes Her

Like what you see here? Read on for golem-inspired essays, short stories, interviews, and more that have appeared in Paper Brigade or on PB Daily!

“Reimagining the Golem: An Icon and Omen” by Amit Tishler
“Excerpt: The Golem of Brooklyn” by Adam Mansbach
“Into the Mud” by Yael van der Wouden
“Excerpt:‘The Hidden Palace’ Part I” by Helene Wecker
‘We Are All Already Perfect’: A Conversation with Melissa Broder by Becca Kantor
“‘Fairy-Tale Logic’: A Conversation with Alice Hoffman” by Jamie Wendt
“International Jewish Fiction: A Conversation with Nora Gold” by Simona Zaretsky
“What We Talk About When We Talk About the Golem” by Moriel Rothman-Zecher
“The Golem Sonnets” by M. Pinsky-Appelbaum
“Of Monsters and Menschen: A Typology of Jewish Monsters” by Jaela Jacobs
“On Golems and Empathy: An Interview with Jonathan Auxier” by Emily Schneider
“Golem Stories, from Mysticism to Fiction to the Realm of Plausibility” by Matthew Kressel
“Discovering the Pinch: Part II; or, Animating a Literary Golem” by Steve Stern
“Interview with the Golem” by Matthew L. Cohn
“Episode 46: Red Pilling‘the Golem’ ” by Marky Millor

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