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golems

From the Journal

Into the Mud

Yael van der Wouden
January 3, 2022
Excerpt

Excerpt: ​‘The Hid­den Palace’ Part II

Helene Weck­er
May 28, 2021
Excerpt

Excerpt: ​‘The Hid­den Palace’ Part I

Helene Weck­er
May 24, 2021
Fiction

The Golem Sonnets

M. Pin­sky-Appel­baum
March 25, 2021
Fiction

Episode 46: Red Pilling ​“the Golem”

Marky Mil­lor
March 24, 2021
Fiction

Inter­view with the Golem

Matthew L. Cohn
March 23, 2021
Fiction

What We Talk About When We Talk About the Golem

Moriel Roth­man-Zech­er
March 22, 2021
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Fic­tion
Milk Fed
Melis­sa Broder
Interview

‘Fairy-Tale Log­ic’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Alice Hoffman

Jamie Wendt
August 31, 2020
Essay

Of Mon­sters and Men­schen: A Typol­o­gy of Jew­ish Monsters

Joela Jacobs
July 15, 2019
Interview

On Golems and Empa­thy: An Inter­view with Jonathan Auxier

Emi­ly Schneider
February 11, 2019
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Fic­tion
Sweep: The Sto­ry of a Girl and Her Monster
Jonathan Aux­i­er
Essay

Only We Can Save Us: A Brief His­to­ry of Jew­ish Super­heroes, Real and Fictional

Adam Nemett
November 1, 2018
Cover of American Golem: The New World Adventures of an Old World Mud Monster
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Amer­i­can Golem: The New World Adven­tures of an Old World Mud Monster
Marc Lumer
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Fic­tion
The Golem On Fire Mountain
Char­layne A. Crawford
Essay

Golem Sto­ries, from Mys­ti­cism to Fic­tion to the Realm of Plausibility

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…
Matthew Kres­sel
April 1, 2016
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