Golem in Jewish American Literature

The Author: Nicola Morris teaches in Goddard College’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program and in the State University of New York College at Cortland’s English Department. She received her Ph.D. in English from Binghamton University, State University of New York. Morris has published criticism, essays, poems and stories in literary and professional journals and anthologies.

«This fascinating and important book studies the golem as a figure for post-Holocaust humanity, a symbol of human creativity that also measures its limitations. It combines rich learning in Jewish culture and history, folklore and theoretical issues of intertextuality, and it probes the meeting places for ethical and artistic issues in contemporary Jewish fiction. The book is original, insightful and very well written.» (Susan Strehle, Professor of English, Binghamton University, State University of New York)«In her examination of the golem figure in contemporary Jewish American novels, Nicola Morris succeeds brilliantly in creating a study that is both thought-provoking to the expert in Jewish mysticism and accessible to the reader who may be encountering golems for the first time.» (Rebecca Lesses, Professor of Jewish Studies, Ithaca College, and author of ‘Ritual Practices to Gain Power: Angels, Incantations and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism’)