golems

Ear­li­er this week, Matthew Kres­sel explored the Jew­ish sources under­ly­ing Leonard Nimoy’s Vul­can salute and fan­ta­sy literature’s great­est time-trav­el­ing epics. He is…

Ear­li­er this week, Steve Stern offered his rec­ol­lec­tions of the Mem­phis com­mu­ni­ty in which he grew up and the Jew­ish myth­i­cal lore occu­py­ing it. His most recent…

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinIn case you need­ed an excuse to reread Helene Weck­er’s stun­ning 2013 nov­el, the book cov­er for the Indone­sian edi­tion of The Golem and the Jin­ni…

Ear­li­er this week, Don­na Minkowitz wrote about how Judaism became the foun­da­tion for her mem­oir Grow­ing Up Golem: How I Sur­vived My Moth­er, Brook­lyn, and Some…

Ear­li­er this week, Matthue Roth wrote about why kids love scary sto­ries. He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.I was try­ing to…

by Dani Crick­manHelene Weck­er is the author of the The Golem and the Jin­ni. The debut nov­el fol­lows the con­verg­ing sto­ries of two myth­i­cal crea­tures who must find their…