Golems of Gotham

October 7, 2012: Sunday 2-3:30pm Golems of Gotham by Thane Rosenbaum At the beginning of Thane Rosenbaum\u27s imaginative comedy The Golems of Gotham, an elderly pair of Holocaust survivors, Lothar and Rose Levin, commit suicide. Their son, Oliver, a successful New York mystery writer already suffering from his wife\u27s desertion and a crippling case of writer\u27s block, is devastated by the news. Oliver\u27s 14-year-old daughter, Ariel, comes to the rescue, conjuring not only her grandparents from the grave but also a remarkable group of Jewish literary golems (ghosts, in this case) who also killed themselves after a lifetime of Holocaust memories. Among the visitors here to inspire Oliver toward writing a serious second novel are Primo Levi, Jerzy Kosinski, and Paul Celan. While Oliver writes feverishly, the ghosts cleanse New York City of any reminders of oppression toward Jews: tattoos, crew cuts, overcrowded trains, striped uniforms, and smoke belching from tall stacks. Facilitated by Dr. Holli Levitsky, Director, Jewish Studies Program and Associate Professor of Englishhttps://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/jewishbookgroup/1033/thumbnail.jp