![]() ![]() ![]() That’s not the case with the golem of Prague. I think many traditional monsters lack complexity that feels true to the way the world works. ![]() Jonathan Auxier: It’s hard to say why certain ideas lodge into the heart of a writer. Why you do you think you maintained this fascination over the years, and eventually pursued it as an author? At the time, you weren’t familiar with this mysterious figure in Jewish folklore, but you became fascinated by it. Auxier has made a significant new literary contribution to the Jewish myth of the golem, a supernatural being invested with the hopes and fears of oppressed people.Įmily Schneider: You mention your visit to Prague at the age of nineteen, and how much the city seemed imbued with the myth of the golem, Rabbi Loew’s sixteenth-century monstrous creature sent to rescue the Jewish people from danger. ![]() Sweep-a finalist for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s Literature and winner of the 2019 Sydney Taylor Gold Award in the Older Readers category - has impressed both readers and critics with its compelling characters and exciting narrative, as well as its sophisticated integration of history and fiction. I recently had the opportunity to ask Jonathan Auxier, author of Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster, some questions about his acclaimed novel. ![]()
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