{"id":1578,"date":"2023-11-29T00:46:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T00:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2025-11-30T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:10:38","slug":"your-next-jewish-read-the-golem-of-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/29\/your-next-jewish-read-the-golem-of-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Next Jewish Read: The Golem of Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"334\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TheGolemofBrooklyn.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1579 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TheGolemofBrooklyn.png 334w, https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TheGolemofBrooklyn-194x300.png 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Title: <em>The Golem of Brooklyn<\/em><br><br>Author: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adammansbach.com\/\">Adam Mansbach<\/a><br><br>Genre: Speculative Fiction<br><br>Year of Publication: 2023<br><br>Why I Bought\/Borrowed It: Another book I bought based on the cover. It had me at Golem and Brooklyn.<br><br>Two Sentence Summary: Part <em>The Lost Shetl<\/em>, part <em>Frankenstein<\/em>, part <em>Rent<\/em>-vibe, part <em>The Iron Giant<\/em> and part A Short History of the Golem (I made that one up), The <em>Golem of Brooklyn<\/em> is a madcap contemporary roadtrip in search of self, vengeance (maybe), and a broader understanding of the Golem&#8217;s place in Jewish history. Insightful and delightful with a cast of characters with whom you feel an instant connection.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What was Judaism if not an exacting, totalized system of laws handed down by the divine, then kitted out with redundancies and fail-safes by the scholars to eliminate any chance of an infraction&#8211;building a wall around the Torah, it was called, the process by which <em>don&#8217;t cook a goat in its mother&#8217;s milk <\/em>ballooned into <em>never mix dairy with meat<\/em>, <em>buy two sets of dishes, wash them in different dishwashers<\/em> &#8212; and then, finally, poked full of loopholes so the devout might obediently circumvent those laws?<\/p>\n<cite>The Golem of Brookly by Adam Mansbach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Golem of Brooklyn Author: Adam Mansbach Genre: Speculative Fiction Year of Publication: 2023 Why I Bought\/Borrowed It: Another book I bought based on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[78],"tags":[135,89,131,134,121,137],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-next-jewish-read","tag-135","tag-contemporary","tag-friendships","tag-golems","tag-lesbianism","tag-speculative-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TheGolemofBrooklyn.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}