Saturday, December 9, 2023 | 1–2pm
ADMISSION: Free with Museum admission
In Ashkenazi Jewish mythology, the golem is a creature that is crafted of clay and then animated in order to protect the Jewish people. In his new novel The Golem of Brooklyn, Adam Mansbach presents a hilarious and cathartic modern take reimagining the golem as the accidental creation of a stoned artist living in twenty-first-century Brooklyn. Once created, the golem embarks on a hijinks-filled romp, battling contemporary antisemitism along the way. Get ready for an afternoon filled with laughs and catharsis at this reading and discussion.
*Tickets to this talk include Museum admission and admission to all Shabbat at Jewseum: Hanukkah events.
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Adam Mansbach is a novelist, screenwriter, cultural critic and humorist. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep, which has been translated into forty languages, named Time Magazine's 2011 "Thing of the Year," and sold over three million copies worldwide. The two sequels, You Have to F**king Eat and F**k, Now There Are Two of You are also New York Times bestsellers. The audiobooks, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, Bryan Cranston, and Larry David, are pretty fucking good as well.
Mansbach's novels include Rage is Back, The End of the Jews (winner of the California Book Award), and Angry Black White Boy, which is taught at over a hundred schools and was adapted into a prize-winning stage play in 2008. His middle grades series, Jake the Fake Keeps it Real (co-written with Craig Robinson), was a Scholastic Book Club Main Selection and winner of the 2021 Grand Canyon Readers Award. With Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel, Mansbach wrote For This We Left Egypt, a finalist for the Thurber Award for American Humor, and the bestselling A Field Guide to the Jewish People.
Michael Meyer is a writer, comedian, and host of the popular Bay Area show A Very Jewish Christmas Spectacular. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Michael is a multi-talented storyteller with a background in journalism and stand-up comedy. He later transitioned into branding and marketing, where he has interviewed top CEOs and leaders in the tech industry. He currently resides in San Francisco with his wife and two children.
Shabbat at Jewseum is a quarterly program that invites visitors to The CJM on Shabbat (Saturday) afternoons to immerse themselves in Jewish ideas of rest and rejuvenation, and to engage with the ritual of Shabbat through an afternoon of activations at The Museum. Shabbat at Jewseum includes live music, a learning corner, interactive gallery walks, and hands-on craft making activities, all stemming from the diverse traditions and hallmarks of Shabbat across the Jewish experience. The programs offer creative activities that foster wellbeing and aim to create a space for communal joy through the lens of Jewish practices of ritual and belonging.
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