A Golem grows in Brooklyn — but do Jews need it?

A Golem grows in Brooklyn — but do Jews need it?

The Golem of Brooklyn By Adam Mansbach One World, 272 pages, $18 No creature from Jewish folklore has made as sizable a literary dent as the Golem. There’s a reason we keep bringing him back. Talmudic literature refers to Adam as a “golem” before he was vivified by God’s breath. Later, as clay-hewn avenger, the Golem figured in legendary escapades of medieval rabbinic sages hoping to safeguard their people.  This not-quite-alive being, made to d…