The golem of Brooklyn
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9780593729823
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| Grouping Title | golem of brooklyn |
| Grouping Author | adam mansbach |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-09-07 05:40:28AM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-09-21 05:21:57AM |
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Mansbach, Adam, 1976-
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"In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem, and always in a time of crisis. But Len Bronstein is no rabbi--he's a Brooklyn art teacher who steals a large quantity of clay from his school, gets extremely stoned, and manages to bring his creation to life despite knowing little about Judaism and even less about golems. Unable to communicate with his nine-foot-six, four hundred-pound, Yiddish-speaking guest, Len enlists a bodega clerk and ex-Hasid named Miri Apfelbaum to translate. Eventually, The Golem learns English by binging Curb Your Enthusiasm after ingesting a massive amount of LSD and reveals that he is a creature with an ancestral memory; he recalls every previous iteration of himself, making The Golem a repository of Jewish history and trauma. He demands to know what crisis has prompted his re-creation, and whom must he destroy. When Miri shows him a video of white nationalists marching and chanting "Jews will not replace us," the answer becomes clear"--
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9780593729823
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2023
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One World
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Golem -- Fiction
Humorous fiction
Jewish mythology -- Fiction
Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
Satirical literature
Humorous fiction
Jewish mythology -- Fiction
Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
Satirical literature
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The golem of Brooklyn
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The golem of Brooklyn / a novel by Adam Mansbach
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The golem of Brooklyn
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Golem
Jewish mythology
Jews
Jewish mythology
Jews
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