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.
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